AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bottom of page 5. 16 elites refused to collaborate with London and there was resistance (as in China over the opium trade between the 1830s and 1850s, Egypt in 1882 and in West Africa and South Africa during the 1880s and 1890s), then the British would use military power. This is how the UK […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth […]

The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] writes: ‘The British had, for several decades before 1917, been a preeminent colonial power in the Near East, demonstrated most vividly by their invasion and occupation of Egypt in 1882. From the 1890s onwards dramatic changes began to take place in the nature of imperialism. Whilst colonisation and colonialism would continue to exist, imperialism […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, but […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been at the behest of the NKVD. Even though he had been an open member of the CP, working for a Comintern front, he ended up in Egypt, working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), ‘in the section dealing with Yugoslavia’. MI5’s reservations regarding this were dismissed by his commanding officer who told them […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1931-1957 and later Chairman of the Monday Club 1976-1978. He resigned from Parliament in 1957 in anger at the UK ‘climbing down’ and abandoning military action against Egypt in 1956. Courtney was a career naval officer who ran the UK’s infiltration of agents into Latvia and Estonia in the late ‘40s, an operation that […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have similar characteristics to the Karzai regime in the sense that they are little more than ‘criminal organizations’, despoiling their own countries. She discusses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Nigeria as variations on this theme. They are all ‘kleptocracies’ facing Islamist challenges. The regime the US put in place in Iraq is another […]

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