A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]

Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] many of the issues that Frum had for years been urging the Republican Party to take onboard, ‘immigration . . . middle class incomes . . . drugs’. Saldin and Teles quote Frum’s telling reply: ‘Yeah, but the reason I’ve been talking about those things . . . is that I sensed something like […]

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