Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: Deception in High Places a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade Nicholas Gilby London: Pluto Press, 2015, p/b, £14.00 This is very good: clearly written, massively documented1 and carefully done. Mark Thatcher, for example, some of whose wealth is widely believed to come from BAE’s 1985 Al Yamamah deal with the Saudis, isn’t mentioned. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] like The Institute for Government, has a significant following among Blairite supporters and activists. The existence of Progress as a (comparatively) well resourced pro-free market, pro-US, pro- Israel body within the Labour Party had led some to describe it as a ‘party within a party’ a la Militant and to demand, somewhat theatrically, its […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Colonel Gaddafi/EU foreign policy and interviewed on Newsnight she wore a noticeable gold broach. Glinting in the camera lights, it looked like the 6 pointed star of Israel doing neither Israel nor the EU any favours.2 4 Note 21 continued: ‘warned’ and traumatised. It ended, in PR terms, in America six months later when […]