Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: Running Rings Colin Challen Before the post of North Yorkshire’s Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner was abolished in May 2024 – to make way for a new executive mayor – the incumbent offered residents in certain postcode areas, assumed to be at more risk of crime, free Ring doorbell video cameras. These currently sell for […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] several points: the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia), the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt), the Suez Canal (Egypt), and across the Mediterranean ( Israel, Palestine (Gaza), Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). In addition, a network of pipelines links North Africa with Europe. Many US companies operate in […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] among its members,9 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.1 0 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] here. I learnt more about this relationship and made some good friends. But the premise was unnerving as I listened to generals talking about the expansion of Israel as if we would all agree that that was necessary. Or Republicans discussing how to keep Japan in its place. So my reservations go back a […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Eye cited by me in these columns. This is a collection of essays on: * the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and the slowmotion ethnic cleansing of Israel; * the British state’s handling of the domestic Jihadist threat; * the corruption of the ANC government in South Africa; * the creation of the Iraqi […]

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