Friends of Israel Booth PDF

Lobster Issue

[…] friend of Israel currently portrayed by Aked. That doesn’t look likely in the present dilapidated state of British democracy. But I felt that about Britain when Margaret Thatcher continued to support apartheid South Africa in the face of growing world outrage. Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly running out of international credit at the […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] man of destiny is required to save the country and God has chosen Donald Trump. He has been ‘served up by the hand of Providence’ like ‘Margaret Thatcher, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln’ before. (p. 64) No one should doubt what is at stake. ‘Satan’, he tells his readers, ‘considers taking this […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] friend of Israel currently portrayed by Aked. That doesn’t look likely in the present dilapidated state of British democracy. But I felt that about Britain when Margaret Thatcher continued to support apartheid South Africa in the face of growing world outrage. Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly running out of international credit at the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. * new * The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re […]

Everybody now loves widgets!

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the first annual conference of EEF, the Engineering Employers Federation, now the clunkily self-styled ‘Manufacturers Organisation for UK Manufacturing’. 5 The text is at . subheading ‘Margaret Thatcher spoke enthusiastically about regional aid’ – in the Telegraph (24 November 2011). Green noted in his opening paragraph: ‘Despite the hype, the City (financial services and […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] had said to Mr Higgins – i.e. that I had only one ‘job description’. That was also made clear in a report by MI5 in 1975 (see attached extract). Some of the Govt Departments, such as the MoD, would have known that what Mrs Thatcher said in her letter to Terence Higgins MP was untrue.

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] regiment at the time – four of whom were actually members of the ‘Pagoda’ assault team. Then there’s the versions by political and policing figures – Margaret Thatcher, Willie Whitelaw, Douglas Hurd and (Metropolitan Police Commissioner) Sir David McNee – who also were integral at some level. That’s another four. There is the autobiography […]

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