Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be abused elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] embedding in what is for the rest of them a clear clique with a deeply pro-establishment bent. Those who were in Parliament at the time supported the Iraq war, which doesn’t bode well for their intelligence analysis. Now Brexit has sharpened some of their antipathy to the serial rebel Corbyn. Probably speaking for all […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The right madness I was flipping through Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable (Fontana, 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Johnson at The Spectator and was its political correspondent at the time of 9/11. Not long afterwards his comfortable and well-rewarded worldview changed. The turning point was Iraq, and my realisation that the British state was party to a lie about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in order to justify an illegal […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] usurp the role reserved to the Crown. * The military were upset. Like most people who knew something about Saddam Hussein, they didn’t really want the second Iraq war, they wanted to leave Afghanistan much earlier, were fed up with Chancellor Brown’s cuts and 18 This reality was voiced by Lord Ashdown during the […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context by reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is: Tell them what they want to hear, you’ll earn more money. With the codicil: Let your imagination be unconfined! (Who could forget Curveball’s role in the Iraq debacle?) And Somersett certainly let his imagination run wild. So, Adams goes out looking for Milteer, eventually finds him, and puts to him the five questions […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] leader. Marshall-Andrews’ own particular concerns are with New Labour’s colonial wars and its assault on civil liberties. Blair told barefaced lies to secure British participation in the Iraq War. Marshall-Andrews makes the interesting point that if he had told the truth then he would never have got a Commons majority in favour of war. […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] Europe by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of […]

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