Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] conveniently forgotten.4 2 The governments of France, Yemen, and Egypt sought his extradition on charges of recruiting for the GIA, kidnapping, and links to terrorism, respectively. The Blair Government protected Hamza. Another protected asset was Rachid Ramda, head of the London branch of the GIA. He was wanted by the French in connection with […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] virtual beginner like me as some of the more complex JFK forensic analyses. Friends of the Friends The emasculation of the Labour Party is generally attributed to Blair and Brown in the 1990s; but it began much earlier, with the 1988/9 policy review which started the process of accommodating the City and the Americans. […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] only were the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble – our intrepid investigative reporter. What does upset him though is the fact […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Team mercenary GB Part 2 – This is the modern world Nick Must The 21st century UK PMC In my first article on the British influence on the world of Private Military Contractors (PMCs),1 I covered the period from the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium. I showed that there was a distinct […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for editorial and proof-reading help. Going round in circles In the section below subheaded ‘What goes around’, I referred to David Teacher’s massive study of Le Cercle. Teacher informs me that his fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 Also known as the Pinay […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: British Counterinsurgency John Newsinger London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2015, p/b, £18.99 This is a new edition of British Counterinsurgency, first published in 2002. Here’s what I wrote about the first edition in Lobster 44. ‘To my knowledge this is the first account of Britain’s post-1945 colonial wars written from a radical left standpoint. By which I don’t […]