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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] of Edward Bennett Williams, and lawyer for the Democratic National Committee), President Johnson once ‘even had one Senator’s mistress contacted to have her persuade her lover to vote to break a filibuster’.5 6 Hoover also 54 Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 398-410; Summers, Official and Confidential, pp. 310-312; Flynt and Eisenbach, One […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Revolution; and second, the series of internal inquiries into the place of intelligence in the British state.’ (p. 41) In 1919 . . . ‘The entire Secret Vote was worth less than one-tenth of the cost of a Royal Navy cruiser. Army Field Intelligence amounted to 0.1 per cent of the Army Estimates.’ (p. […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] by the media in many other countries, including the UK. 2 In MacQueen’s view this was an intentional strategy of 1 The only member of Congress to vote against the resolution on the Authorisation for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists on September 14 2001 was Democratic Representative Barbara Lee from California: see . […]

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