Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: Team mercenary GB Part 2 – This is the modern world Nick Must The 21st century UK PMC In my first article on the British influence on the world of Private Military Contractors (PMCs),1 I covered the period from the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium. I showed that there was a distinct […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the war in Afghanistan was not of any great concern to the British government, as long as fealty to the American Empire was faithfully demonstrated. As Tony Blair once remarked, it was sometimes necessary to cement the ‘special relationship’ in blood – other people’s blood. But why has the war gone so disastrously wrong? […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] or else they swallowed whole the current orthodoxy since they had no capacity to take an independent view. Gordon Brown fell into this latter category – Tony Blair the former. John Smith had only a rudimentary knowledge of economics, but was a little more confident on the nuts and bolts of tax and accounting. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] to ‘democracy’. It seems that in the early 2000s the British intelligence community raised serious doubts that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, which were disregarded by Bush and Blair because they didn’t fit in with their presumptions. America’s problem after 2001 was not that it had no loyal intelligence allies, but that they were, as […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] investigation in 2004, but, in a clear case of political interference in the judicial process, it was closed in 2006, after intervention from then Prime Minister Tony Blair, on grounds of public interest, amid concerns that relations with Saudi Arabia were being harmed. In August 2013 the issue surfaced again when the SFO admitted […]