Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

Articles

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen -- Simon Matthews
Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world -- Nick Must
Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate -- Jonathan Marshall
Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry -- Robin Ramsay
Blair and Israel -- Robin Ramsay
Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics -- Jonathan Marshall
The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years -- Andrew Rosthorn
Deaths in Parliament: a legend re-examined -- Garrick Alder
The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club -- Andrew Rosthorn
A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election -- Garrick Alder
The view from the bridge -- Robin Ramsay

Book reviews

Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas by Joan Mellen -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
The CIA as Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine -- reviewed by Dr T. P. Wilkinson
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen -- reviewed by John Newsinger
Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals by John Rodden -- reviewed by John Newsinger

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20 Nov

Column extras. Oswald and the Angleton mole hunt; the British-American Project again; the myth of Britain's economic ranking; the Cold War's arms race inverted; the passing of Tony Bunyan; more.

Robin Ramsay's "View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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20 Nov

"Hanton shows how US corporations own and effectively control the British economy, and how they siphon off vast profits while paying little or no tax."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017) reviews Angus Hanton's "Vassal State: How American Runs Britain"

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14 Oct

Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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14 Oct

"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

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