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[…] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of substance in the Hughes collection? Two names lay claim to some thoughtful analysis: Larry Elliott and Andy Beckett. Elliott has been a consistent critic of neo- liberal orthodoxy on the business pages for the lifetime of New Labour. Beckett, who caught up with the British American Project in The Guardian seven years after […]

Israel, the lobby and its critics

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]

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

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] how the Bureau operated. In the extremist far right world that Milteer moved around in there were probably plenty of individuals who were going to whack this liberal or whack that ‘negro’ and, by and large, it was just empty idle talk, bravado. Perhaps someone Milteer came across was more convincing than all the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of the party. The thin white ghost Julian Assange fell out with the major media partly because of a culture clash between the radical hacker movement and liberal journalists; but mostly because he wanted to control how they handled the material. As everyone discovers eventually, you can’t do that: you give it to them […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] harbour at Larne, north of Belfast, owned by the Smiley family. (p. 2) While his grandfather played an important part in helping organise Unionist resistance against the Liberal government, his father, a cavalry officer, was actively involved in the ‘Curragh Mutiny’ in March 1914. David Smiley was born in April 1916, into a life […]

The Two Goulds

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