Casa Pia The making of a modern European witch hunt by Richard Webster

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[…] and, in the case of Bryn Estyn, certainly, had more ridicule been applied to the nonsense about satanic child abuse, which was imported in the years before from American Christian circles and took root here in some Christian social workers (who believed in the literal existence of Satan). RR Page 103 Summer 2011 Lobster 61

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[…] and strong-minded guy, but I don’t think he would be able to admit that Iraq was a mistake. It would be too devastating, even for him. (p. 103) Well, what would it mean? Chiefly, it would mean he was no longer a reliable flunkey of the Americans. Consequently, in most of the world his […]

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Smith (see note 9) p. 98 16 Donald Macdougal, Don and Mandarin (London: John Murray, 1987) p. 248 17 Lawson (see note 1) p. 85 18 Ibid. 103 Winter 2010 M3 as the main monetary measure and suggested that we should allow it to rise in the first half of 1981. In short, Professor […]

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[…] and strong-minded guy, but I don’t think he would be able to admit that Iraq was a mistake. It would be too devastating, even for him. (p. 103) Well, what would it mean? Chiefly, it would mean he was no longer a reliable flunkey of the Americans. Consequently, in most of the world his […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] crashed in April, killing all aboard. Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] to smear him as a Czech agent. 26 58. This period is discussed in detail in Dorril and Ramsay part 4. 59. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 103 60. Ibid. 61. Verney letter to author. 62. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 93. 63. This Time Out story was republished as ‘The CIA backs the […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] America for Christmas. American military personnel were pulled off the plane. A delegation of South Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Decline of Tory Britain (London: Verso, 2021), pp. 82-3. 16 Paul Johnson and Steven Webb, ‘Explaining the Growth in UK Income Inequality, 1979-88’, The Economic Journal, vol. 103 (1993), pp. 429-435. 17 Charles Woolfson, John Foster and Matthew Beck, Paying the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry (London: Mansell, 1997), pp. […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] key witness in the trial, it having been determined that a timer manufactured by Mebo Electronics had detonated the explosives that had brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. Careful procedural arguments made by the prosecution underscored that while Bollier was not being charged at that point as either […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. 103) What prepared the way for Trump, however, was the Tea Party movement. This powerful insurgency inside the Republican Party was funded by ‘billionaires like the Coors […]

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