The Business of Death: Britain’s Arms Trade at Home and Abroad

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] the companies will receive little more than a slap on the wrist and a request to say sorry.’ p. 95 ‘the ministry’s mechanisms for preventing and detecting fraud verge on an inducement to criminal activity.’ p. 172 ‘It is notable that while the DHSS set up a telephone hot-line in August 1996 to encourage […]

The Sewer not the Sewage?: David Mills, Berlusconi and New Labour

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] golf, and Peter Mandelson, the ‘online begetter’ of New Labour. Mills has suffered various public embarrassments since the mid-nineties, when his offices were raided by the Serious Fraud Office searching for papers relating to investigations by Italian magistrates into allegations of corrupt financial practices by Berlusconi. Mills had acted as Berlusconi’s lawyer in the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Alun Michael MP, a member of Labour Friends of Israel.’ Education, education, education If you know any teachers, you know that the NuLab education-raising-standards story is a fraud, that there has not been the continuous ‘raising of standards’ claimed by the government. What there has been is a stream of stories reporting that standards […]

9/11: The new evidence

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] a passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon: they think it was a jet fighter, a missile or a drone. From their position, this exhibition must be a fraud. But if it is a fraud, part of the wider 9/11 fraud, that is if the organisers of the exhibition knew that they did not identify […]

The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] dollars ripped-off. He shows how it was done and by whom. (Even if the allegations turn out to be false, this would remain a guide to institutional fraud in America.) He also names dozens of people he claims were murdered to cover it all up: his cover-up death total is 400. ‘How many others […]

Lundy, and, Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard’s Finest Detective Martin Short Grafton, London, 1991 Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson Arrow, London, 1991 The sixties media guru Marshall McLuhan is nowadays generally derided as a fraud.I suspect that most people would found it difficult to accept his statement that television is […]

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should ever happen again.’ Blair himself was at pains to add: […]

Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] coterie. The values they espouse and their conduct reflect the world that New Labour inhabits and has, in part, created. Mills has been investigated by the Serious Fraud Office; and his sister-in-law Dame Barbara Mills was head of this office until just prior to his investigation. Mills was for many years an adviser to […]

Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] in a British inner city. This is not so far-fetched. No-go areas between Muslim, Sikh and poor white gangster enclaves are a real security concern because drugs, fraud and people trafficking creates an economic base for a black economy dominated by gangsters, supported by electoral fraud and the will to violence necessary to enforce […]

The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] policy making. In short, he’s into politics for grown-ups: collecting and then connecting details to form big pictures. His 1991 book with Bob Whittington on the BCCI fraud remains one of the best guides to that financial and political scandal 14 years later, as the Bank of England’s regulatory role is finally being examined […]

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