Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Sorene ‘will lead BICOM after 15 years in senior positions at the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health….Previously head of public affairs at the Israeli embassy in London, Mr Sorene has experience of working on Middle East issues.’40 Perhaps it’s not too surprising that Baroness Tonge resigned the LibDem whip after speaking […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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 […]