I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1961, though, MacMillan seemed in serious disarray, badly behind in the polls and widely mocked by many of the UK intelligentsia. There is also evidence that the spy scandals of 1962-1963 caused many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the book, Andrew Rosthorn becomes a part of, rather than a teller of, the story. Like the plot from a Len Deighton or John le Carré spy novel, phone calls between the people planning to bring down Oyston were being recorded by the participants themselves – or bugged by third parties – left, […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Commons on 8 December, Channon writes ‘Russia saved the government in July; now Japan will do likewise’. He had enough political sense to know 25 Hitler’s Spy Chief (London: Pegasus, 2013) pp. 213-216 Replacing him with Richard Law, Conservative MP for Kingston upon Hull SW and son of Andrew Bonar Law. A right-wing […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a new book about the death of the Labour MP Bob Cryer: Killing Cryer: The Life and Mysterious Death of a British MP Who Exposed America’s Secret Spy Base.8 Dr. Roger Cottrell is a kind of Lobster fellow-traveller, as a search for his name on this site will show. He now has a ‘substack’ […]

The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence. Peter Luce The recent review of Kevin Coogan’s The Spy Who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground1 prompted me to re-read the work of another claimant to the Russian imperial succession. In 1998 Michael Gray, a former Technical […]

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