Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and steered 6 In most – e.g. John Rentoul, Tony Blair, (London: Little Brown, 1995), p. 390 – the money came from Barry Cox, Peter Mandelson’s erstwhile boss at London Weekend Television (LWT). On the LWT network see Andy Beckett, ‘A world apart’, in The Guardian (Weekend), 4 September 1999. 7 John Lloyd, New […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of international narcotics trafficking and policing of the global drug trade. The Strength of the Pack is the story of how the legacy of Anslinger, the FBN’s boss, and the contradictions between publicly proclaimed policies of interdiction and the actual policies of the national security state, have created an apparatus based on hypocrisy and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went to work for Mob boss Meyer Lanksy after WW2, referred to Lansky by a criminal he met while in prison (there is a hint that Holt shot Ben ‘Bugsy’ Siegel). In […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Rochdale Liberal Party in 1949, joined Labour and got elected as a local councillor in 1952. Thereafter he became a fairly typical example of the northern ‘ boss politician’. It appears that he began assaulting adolescent boys in his thirties and, eventually, a police investigation ensued. This concluded in 1969 with a decision to […]