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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)

[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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[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

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[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 […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] in Hungary and announced instead that: An innocent man would stand and face trial. Gonzalo Lira is not an innocent man. Gonzalo Lira is a criminal propagandist. 103 Ashton-Cirillo was also very keen to defend the honour of the Ukrainian SBU, whom Lira had accused of being behind the violent extortion in SIZO. AshtonCirillo […]

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