A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the West was ‘a lesser evil’ that he was prepared to help fight the Russians. This was the same stance that he had taken with regard to Nazi Germany. Whereas in Animal Farm, the Soviet Union is shown as being as bad as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] paid a heavier price than most”. The fact he had no such contacts was clear to me in 1981, when Searchlight obtained evidence of a planned neo- Nazi bomb attack on the Notting Hill carnival in London, and Gerry and I had to use a convoluted route through a friendly journalist to get the […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] corporate CEOs very publicly resigned in protest. This was after a confrontation in which one protestor, Heather Heyer, had been killed when a car driven by a Nazi deliberately ran into a crowd of anti-racist protestors Trump made his infamous quip that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of the confrontation. His […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] he referred to a panel chaired by one Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 2001-2009. Dobriansky, wrote Kuzmarov, is ‘the daughter of an ally of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’. Stealing the 2020 presidential election? I’ve got some time for John Ward at The Slog. He often comes up with a new snippet […]

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