Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] handed over the federal judiciary (including the Supreme Court) to these people, he has also taken a stand against abortion. Even further, his moving of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem powerfully resonated with their end of times theology. There is a peculiar irony in the evangelical support for Israel because, in their […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]