Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 7 Routledge (see note 4) p. 271 8 For summaries of Whitehall’s wartime anti-Sovietism and preparations for the post-war era, see for example, Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence (London: John Murray, 2001) chapter 2 or Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, (London: Fourth Estate, […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] sometimes with newspaper clippings or photos attached. Each person had their National Insurance number and other personal data to identify them. The source of the information was hidden by code numbers although Kerr has given a list of these to the ICO. 20 Steve Kelly, 43, from Essex, was one who received a copy […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Twenty Year Crisis 1919-1939 and Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (London: Penguin, 2012) 17 6 points to the hidden assumptions of managerialism: that science can control nature, people can be controlled, and, most recently, that organization is best affected via the market as the most […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] crime. 6 then the memoir proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material.

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified.’ script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

Lobster Issue

[…] proper of 361 pages, which has been very poorly proof-read. Finally we have the script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] in supporting the Taliban is now comparatively well-known and widely acknowledged, the role of the Saudis in sponsoring first AQI and later Islamic State (ISIS) still remains hidden, indeed positively taboo. The best way to regard ISIS is as a monster created, at least in part, by a Saudi Frankenstein: a monster that has […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]

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