A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] civil war in which they could play no part; while the much more powerful Americans blundered about. It was this which got the US ambassador killed. Hancock notes that he ‘died as the result of mistakes made on the ground and Washington’s poor assessment of the degree of risk to which they were exposed’. […]

View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. * new* . . . some mistake There was a piece in the Daily Telegraph (4 May) making the striking claim that ‘Trump’s hundred days have been a triumph. The swamp is […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

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[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

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[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] down. The story starts in 1978 with the White House and a behind the scenes deal with Iran. The US, which had supported the Shah of Iran for years, was beginning to find his increasingly oppressive regime embarrassing, both at home and abroad. President Carter ordered the CIA to begin secretly supporting the Iranian […]

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