[…] 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’ […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
[…] 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’ […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay 18 August 2026 Who is my enemy’s enemy? ‘The Russia question’ (pre 1990, the Soviet question) – viz. since they are antiAmerican and anti-NATO, should we not support them? – remains an issue on the left of British politics. For some the answer is ‘Yes: my enemy’s enemy […]
