Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] wrong-footed by the Goldstone Report’s findings. The Obama administration in Washington DC made clear its rejection of the Report from the very beginning. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would later boast of how she had ‘defended Israel from isolation . . . including opposing the biased Goldstone report’.13 Labour were caught out, however, and […]

The Dispossessed: The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival by Christophe Guilluy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] was accepted by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats ( Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence […]

Simon review

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The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] no interest in the economy – as far as I know, he had no economic knowledge at all – and left it all to Brown. Copying the Clinton Democrats of the 1990s, Brown believed that Britain’s future lay in the financial services, the so-called knowledge economy and immigrants who would do the shitwork the […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] very president since Reagan has been obliged to follow the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] colour for the Chinese. These days dresses not tiaras speak to empires. And, giving one of her keynote speeches on the Middle East, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wearing a two-strand green necklace, an important colour in Islam. 24 Newsnight BBC 2, 22 February 2011 Development of SIS novelists T he SIS has also […]

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