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[PDF file]: […] from school days with the publisher’s son and heir, Si. The political power Cohn enjoyed from his association with the Newhouse media empire, with its 22 newspapers, cable TV companies, and prestige magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, was ‘of inestimable value to Roy’, according to his biographer. In return, Cohn […]
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[PDF file]: […] a carpet in the deputy Labour leader’s house matched a carpet in the town hall.’19 Oyston had multiple business interests: from his property empire, through radio and cable television stations, to a modelling agency. It was the last of these that would be most directly used in his orchestrated downfall. Model Team, as it […]
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[PDF file]: […] to mark the occasion. A number of Republican Senators were invited. As the then British Ambassador to Washington DC, Kim Darroch, somewhat wryly observed: ‘Two of the cable news channels presented the event on a split screen: on one side, live coverage of the speeches marking the official opening; on the other the riots […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes as […]
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[PDF file]: […] . . . . corruption soon became a defining feature of the government’. As early as September 2005, Ronald Neumann, the then U.S. Ambassador, sent a classified cable to Washington, warning of a ‘corruption crisis’ that was ‘a major threat to the country’s future’. He wanted President Hamid Karzai to remove some of the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Schroder’s and Lazard’s. In the second were executives from some of the nation’s most powerful corporations such ICI, Shell-Mex, the AngloIranian Oil Company (now known as BP), Cable and Wireless, and AEI (Associated Electrical Industries, then one of Britain’s major industrial groups). This coalition of forces, formed at the junction where the interests of […]