The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Adam 13 ‘DfID’s rise and fall provides lessons for government departments’ . 14 or 15 or 5 Smith International Ltd. (ASI), a spin-off from the eponymous neo- Liberal institute. A report on the website Publish What You Fund contains an analysis of how ASI spends its income. This reveals (for a period it doesn’t […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] harbour at Larne, north of Belfast, owned by the Smiley family. (p. 2) While his grandfather played an important part in helping organise Unionist resistance against the Liberal government, his father, a cavalry officer, was actively involved in the ‘Curragh Mutiny’ in March 1914. David Smiley was born in April 1916, into a life […]

Israel, the lobby and its critics

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] abused him as a ‘self-hating Jew’. The occasion was when the young Marqusee first measured the behaviour of Israeli forces against the humane, Judaism-derived principles of his liberal family in New York. Norman Finkelstein has long been targeted by the US lobby for Israel, most famously losing his battle for a tenured teaching post […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been excised by […]

Consultants Challen

Lobster Issue

[…] Adam 13 ‘DfID’s rise and fall provides lessons for government departments’ . 14 or 15 or 5 Smith International Ltd. (ASI), a spin-off from the eponymous neo- Liberal institute. A report on the website Publish What You Fund contains an analysis of how ASI spends its income. This reveals (for a period it doesn’t […]

You get the report you pay for

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] brother Michael is a board member and Chief Energy Advisor. Also on the team as a board member is Vicky Price, former wife of Chris Huhne, former Liberal Democrat MP and energy and climate change Cabinet Minister. () In news reports of McWilliams’ crack cocaine ‘fall from grace’ he is often referred to as […]

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[…] Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]

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