Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – where it was considered Russia would exercise a veto and prevent action by the international community – they were not unreasonable considerations to be born in mind before engaging in military action. They were only of value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] credentials. (p. 127) Trump, of course, did not attend the classes. There is much more of interest in Keddie’s book. Some minor points inevitably stick in the mind. For example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in question. Reading it will probably give you a much better understanding of what I am trying to explain! https:// www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-uk-foia.pdf . . . With that in mind, I can see from page 166 of Annie’s book that the redaction, censoring the direct attempt to name Tunworth, is about 15 letters long. This prompts […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

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[…] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

War on Terror Inc

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[…] just giving away part of the power of the state which NuLab were supposed to be trying to articulate in the interests of the British people (never mind the less well off/disadvantage/deprived/ poor/working class – pick a term). Such privatisation speaks of extremely low self-esteem: for we – the state and politicians – are […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]

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