Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project government blessing. During the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial ex-Minister Alan Clark let the cat out of the bag revealing that ‘the interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of civil society. In the infantile jargon of the British political system, it was an attempt to ‘bounce’ the proposals through Cabinet, having already primed prime minister Churchill (who, like many other prime ministers, knew little about economics).5 But after an intense struggle, described in detail by one ofthe participants, Donald Macdougall, the Robot […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] appeasers – either in Britain or in the Nazi regime. It is quite plausible that the flight offered a long odds attempt to reach conciliation with anti- Churchill elements and allow a month for German forces on the Western front to be relocated and participate in the coming planned assault on the Soviet Union.1 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] one of the more notorious catastrophes of the long class war. The unrepentant patriots and royalists treat this as a kind of bloodbath for national identity. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister while Douglas Sr. was wasting away on Leyte, was largely responsible for the political decision to attack Turkey on these insurmountable slopes. Churchill’s […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] money had been spent on equipment that was in place, there would be a weaker argument for disbanding SOE and replacing it with a purely SIS–staffed version. Churchill himself may not have been a supporter of the campaign to keep SOE alive but like much of Whitehall, as soon as the eventual defeat of […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] merchants and soldiers often acquired an astonishing knowledge of Muslim culture and Islamic learning, along with a deep understanding of the societies where they were based.’ Winston Churchill was one of that knowing assembly. As a newly elected Conservative MP, Churchill stood out against his party and most of the country by attacking the […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] unfair. The trial judge will not allow the use of PII if the effect is to render the trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Sansom’s Dominion (2012) are all bleak and plausible stories in which Britain is either invaded and defeated after Dunkirk, or sues for peace, with the appeasers ousting Churchill from power. Hitler winning seems a particularly popular story line today; but a clear inference to be drawn from all of this, whether in the UK […]