Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] the Democrats and – by implication – how British politicians would compete for office in the future. Weston’s book, we were told, was being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] have been fun doing it. He could just have published the US Space Command brochure. The Captive Party: How Labour was taken over by Capital Michael Barratt Brown Socialist Renewal, new series, no. 2, £5.00 Very useful and clearly written, this is a 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] the Mafia notoriously say, ‘things change’ but it looked, by May Day, that deadlines were being set. Blair has set a framework for terrorism and security that Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
The SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Nigel West Little Brown and Company, 1996, £16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn’t take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] 2001. Tesco also announced record profits (£1bn – The Daily Telegraph 10 April 2001) due mainly to their huge expansion in eastern Europe post 1990. Blair and Brown have so far rejected the idea of any windfall tax. 3 The Sunday Times 17 June 2001. 4 The Sunday Times 11 and 18 March 2001. […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the Skull and Bones was Prescott Bush Snr., father of the first President Bush. A scion of New York’s financial establishment, Prescott Bush was a director of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, the oldest private bank in the United States. He was also a director of the Union Banking Corporation, a bank set up […]