Empire’s Workshop

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] is needed before we come to settled views on international affairs. Notes 1 Kingsley Martin, Harold Laski, London: Gollancz, 1953) 2 The core of the Bush ( Blair) doctrine is the free market. Grandin comments: ‘Call it market polygamy, whereby the US can have multiple partners but each of the partners must be subordinate […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] can be learned for the future.’ Not that we’ll ever learn the lessons as the event was ‘off the record’ and closed to the media. Sir Ian Blair on ‘Policing the metropolis: current challenges’. Challenges include ‘…communication and accountability in an increasingly diverse world city…’. This event was also ‘off the record’ and closed […]

Just War: Psychology and Terrorism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] of the British Medical Association which has.(22) Julie Lloyd and Steve Potter contribute an essay on Cognitive Analytic Therapy and use it to analyse the speeches of Blair and Bush. They show that Bush, Blair (or their speechwriters, more likely) use language to present their case in the best possible light and play on […]

Updates

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] switched from one branch to another after the election was called, and had voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and alive, […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] Chairman, Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee) said that Diana should not be given any sort of ambassadorial role. By Summer 1997 Diana was in discussions with Tony Blair about a ‘unique’ semi-ambassadorial role. The ongoing discussions had ‘taken on a fresh momentum in light of Diana’s charity work and her crusade to ban landmines.’(7) […]

The Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of a biography of Second World War SAS hero Lt. Col. Robert Blair Mayne, and an investigation of Loyalist sectarian killers, The Shankhill Butchers (1989). His book opens with the attempts in 1970 by Captain James Kelly of Irish […]

Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] legal history.(14) Crofton lost. Yeboah won record damages. Yeboah then sued the BBC because of Ware’s programme. The BBC immediately settled, paying Yeboah substantial damages. Of late Blair and some of his team have been making anxious noises about Labour not getting a good press from the UK media. Up until 1992, of course, […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] AGENTS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. RUN FROM FLAT IN EXHIBITION RD, SOUTH KENSINGTON 1952-84 AUTHOR JOHN BINGHAM SPY/THRILLERS WIFE, MADELEINE, INTELL WWII, AUTOBIOGRAPHY BARRED BY D-NOTICE COMMITTEE BLAIR, CHARLES NEIL MOLESWORTH CMG (1962) OBE (48) B 22.10.10 ARMY AND NAVY MI6 (W) 1939 BLACKWATCH EUROPE N AFRICA, SICILY 1941 INSTRUCTOR ARMY STAFF COLL 1943 […]

Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have […]

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