The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Corinne Souza died on 13 25 ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. March of lung cancer, caused by […]

A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] self-consciously bright and overly selfassured statesmen, when combined with gross ignorance, can have fatal effects not just for single individuals but for whole societies and nations.’ (p. 103) This account and the extracts from Hancock’s diary do convey considerable sang-froid on the author’s part; and at the rear of the book there are reproductions […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: The state we are in Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation Sam Bright London: Byline Books, 2023, £14.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2011, the Eton entrance exam paper asked prospective students (12 to 13year-old boys) to draft a speech: The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] 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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