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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

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[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fell apart. Its footnotes were so extensive and dense that someone produced and circulated an index to them. 5 Islamic terrorism.6 Bale describes himself as ‘a classical liberal, a radical individualist, an unabashed secularist, a member of the anti-PC and anti-totalitarian left, and a counter-cultural rebel’.7 What it means in practise is that he […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had reanimated COINTELPRO ‘to prevent militant Black Nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability’. The Tate-Polanski house on Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘ liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo […]

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.27 It makes obvious political sense […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has to have ‘perceptions of moral legitimacy’). The assault on Mali marked the fourth act of aggression – the supreme international crime – committed by Britain’s Tory- Liberal government. The first was the assault on Libya in 2011; the second was the covert deployment of forces in Syria in 2011; the third was the […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (emphasis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the more vague ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, to which many governments could […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted 
 (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] play; and a different public opinion from Britain’s, whose once proud popular anti-spy tradition seems to have evaporated almost entirely. If the US can exercise a more liberal influence on Britain here, it will be an interesting twist in the long history of their ‘special’ intelligence relationship. Otherwise – and this seems an extraordinary […]

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