The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would act if, or when, peace terms were tabled was never clear. Beyond Parliament there were others whose attitude toward Churchill was less than whole-hearted. Sir Horace Wilson, the Head of the Home Civil Service, was known for his strongly anti-semitic views and had been a staunch supporter of Chamberlain’s policies pre-1939 remarking, ‘The […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Weather in 2025’, Air Force 2025, August 1996, at . 10 Kenney quoted in James R. Fleming, ‘The Climate Engineers: Playing God to Save the Planet’, Wilson Quarterly, Spring, 2007, p. 55. 11 Arnold A. Barnes, ‘Weather Modification: Test Technology Symposium ’97: Session B: Advanced Weapons/Instrumentation Technologies’, Air Force Materiel Command, 19 March […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] on that front. At the recent Labour Party conference, delegates were told that circumstances were so bad his government would have to do as much as Attlee, Wilson and Blair combined over a ten-year period. Which shows commendable realism. Consider though the advantages that each of those had: Attlee, Prime Minister of a country […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pregentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] no-one has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, the 1974-79 period, since Stephen Dorril and I wrote Lobster 11 and the expansion of that material in Smear! Wilson and the Secret State; and they were published in 1986 and 1991, before the Internet. What could be done these days with Google and Nexis-Lexis? A […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] p. 114 of Lobster 59. 2 Will Hutton, ‘The banks have refused to mend their ways. Beware the next crash’, The Observer, 13 June 2010. 3 Harry Wilson, ‘Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan ridiculed by City investors’, Daily Telegraph, 1 October 2010. 52 Winter 2010 partly dictated by the Coalition government’s covert provisioning against […]

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