Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] £35.00 Daniel Rachel’s book is a brilliant oral history of the UK’s anti-racist, pro-left cultural activists from the mid ‘70s through to the early ‘90s. I k new several of these people and it was good, so to speak, to meet them again and to see pictures of them doing their stuff all those […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] a transit van containing nearly a quarter of a million blank ballot papers.2 This led almost inevitably to a rash of public 1 This may be a new name for the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit. About which see . The text of a request to the Met to explain the relationship […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] maturity with a sophisticated knowledge of government-to- government betrayal, many of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a deep interest in corruption as an international phenomenon, focussing initially on the developing world but then looking closer to home. One result of this is her new book Everybody Knows, an exploration of corruption in the United States and the global connections. Her focus is very much on networks as the key to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] uncharacteristically, silenced. Then, he began to waffle in his customary fashion. He spoke of NHS investment plans and the appointment of Sir Magdi Yacoub to head a new scholarship scheme. Most of the sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘American financial backing for the project was not actually secured until January 1960 and at the same time Jack Kotschack was appointed General Manager of the planned new station. Gordon McLendon agreed to act as a consultant, strictly on a non-payment basis for fear of jeopardising his ownership of US radio stations, while fellow […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this new departure. In practice this had amounted to a Parliamentary debate which had ended with a majority of MPs in favour of joining. In the 1974 General […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] none of that. He had no record of political activity but he was determined not to go to his grave with a murder conviction. His solicitors located new witnesses who were present in the police station on the night of Quinn’s death and a major World in Action programme was made on the case. […]