[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] how it was that working-class revolutionaries like Pollitt and Marxist intellectuals like Klugmann became apologists and serial liars for it. Having joined the CP in response to Hitler taking power in Germany in 1933, how on earth did Klugmann explain away, justify to himself, Stalin’s alliance with the Nazis in 1939? According to Andrews, […]
[PDF file]: The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks Nick Must In a previous article for Lobster,1 I discussed the planning that took place during the Second World War to establish a staybehind network in case the Axis powers invaded Great Britain. Thus far my coverage of the subject has extended only to the […]
[PDF file]: […] a 85 known fraudster with a personal grudge against Hussein. If the US didn’t need him, why bother using him at all? It’s often remarked that if Hitler hadn’t been born, some other scheming despot would have risen in his place, with much the same results. This notion ignores the plain fact that if […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
[PDF file]: Right-Wing Zionism and Donald Trump Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel David Rubin Shiloh Israel Press, 2021 https://www.shilohisraelchildren.org/about-us/shiloh-israel-press/ John Newsinger In 2010, David Rubin published his The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama. The book came with powerful recommendations from, among others, David Horowitz and Pat Robertson. According to […]
[PDF file]: […] its long sought after control of Japan and the old empires hopelessly indebted to US bankers. The nationalism in Eastern Europe that had been abandoned to pacify Hitler and encourage his campaign against the Soviet Union was now useful again to attack the temporary ally and revive the US ‘open door policy’ in the […]
[PDF file]: […] that by May 1941 Nazi Germany was now either dominating or in control of the European continent and all its resources outside the USSR, final victory over Hitler (as opposed to national survival and immunity against invasion) looked most unlikely. To the peace party, it therefore made sense to settle with Berlin sooner rather […]
[PDF file]: […] Matthews Our Island Story Before the teaching of history to children in this country descended to its current formula of dinosaurs + Romans + Henry VIII + Hitler (with a side helping of slavery) the past was taught in a rather different way. Many who were at primary school pre-1980 will be familiar with […]
[PDF file]: Is a new ‘cold war’ coming? Dr T P Wilkinson T his question is asked repeatedly in the English-language media – probably the most heavily censored data streams in the world (a point to which I will return). Why should anyone worry about a new ‘cold war’? Perhaps it would be more relevant to worry […]
