When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cares); he’s interested in the ‘true Seventies fashion’. Once again we get the Private Eye-cynical hack view of Harold Wilson’s attempts to get an investigation of the security Page 143 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 services going: Wilson was paranoid and (using Bernard Donoughue’s diaries as evidence), Marcia Williams was dreadful. ‘The daily drama in […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] There is no mention of this in the description of Dr Pittman’s routine health check. Any attempt to take blood would not have passed muster with prison security and the warders. The discovery of any attempt to take No. 7’s blood in such a fashion would have risked both a criminal prosecution and an […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of what was said behind closed doors. MPs and pressure groups have condemned secret trials but prosecutors claimed the secrecy was justified in the interests of national security, and described it as “an exceptional case”.’ Beckett, Hencke and Kochan have done us a service in trying to pierce the barriers Blair has erected around […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.49 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] most noted by his absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.31 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of which have appeared in English. But in the end he doesn’t tell us who shot Sweden’s Prime Minister in 1986 as he left a cinema, without security: no-one knows. He offers us his best guess: that it was the result of a huge arms contract between the Swedish firm Bofors and the Indian […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.30 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of the 1980s, was the Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip – […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and came to the conclusion that the resulting corruption was what ‘was driving people to violent revolt in Afghanistan’. Eventually she went to work for the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) where she was one of a number of people arguing that corruption was fuelling the insurgency and that combating it was a […]

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