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. […]
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 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of Sunak, the Adam Smith Institute and others. The issue clearly is not that the UK doesn’t have any free ports now, or that this is some new device for re-booting the economy. What matters is how many you have, how you regulate them, and That the direction of travel might be to deliberately […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Christian Right, give us some insight into this remarkable phenomenon and its likely consequences. The importance of the Christian Right in the United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] link, which surfaces in the 1970s, is the key thread here. After the revelations of FBI and CIA criminality in the mid 1970s, Jimmy Carter appointed a new DCIA, James Schlesinger, who tried to get a grip on the CIA and fired a lot of people in the covert operations branch. The result was […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] as an adviser to Bernie Sanders and to the US Senate Budget committee. She is a Professor of economics and public policy and writes for Bloomberg, the New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Until recently I had never heard of her but her cause was taken up by Richard Murphy […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] whose indoctrination is essential for system maintenance. In fact the counterEstablishment draws most of its support from that most heavily propagandised and indoctrinated class, consumers of the New York Times and Washington Post as well as less conspicuous Establishment media. Other countries in Europe have their equivalents, many of which defer to the US […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] to triumph over the motion of No Confidence tabled against him and thereby quit with honour. What a semi-detached ‘ex’-MI6 officer was doing helping out a key New Labour figure is somewhat obscure but my hunch is that it was a case of ‘my enemy’s enemy’ aimed at depriving the SNP of a symbolic […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] for a Commonwealth space programme.2 This was never credible. Australia and Canada had no interest in such a project, South Africa left the Commonwealth in 1961 and New Zealand could only make minimal contributions. By 1962 the UK had agreed that Black Prince (as the civilian version of Blue Streak was known) could be […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: The Man Who Killed Kennedy The Case Against LBJ Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro New York: Skyhorse, $24.95 (US), h/b I was wondering how to review this when I received a press release from Stone about it, listing what he thought were the important points in it. Let’s have a look at these. ‘By […]