Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] before Dunkirk, in the late spring of 1940 as more and more of France fell under German control and following War Cabinet discussion of the proposal, Winston Churchill instructed Colonel Colin Gubbins3 to form a resistance force of civilian volunteers. These were the Auxiliary Units. Malcolm Atkins argues on his website4 and in his […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Rights that was an obstacle to immigration control and that this was an EU institution. She was wrong. First, the ECHR was established in 1950 by Winston Churchill amongst others. Second, it has nothing to do with the EU; if refugees turn up on our doorstep then the UK is under an international (i.e. […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and control over the ‘road to Moscow’ to prevent future attacks on the Soviet Union. When he gave his infamous ‘Iron Curtain’ address in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill knew that the Allies had given their full consent to the Soviet occupation. Most US Americans did not. When US forces occupied Korea and installed the […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] roam and camp is enjoyed across the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries. The author notes all this more in sorrow than in anger and quotes Winston Churchill approvingly : It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It is not the man who is bad; it is the law which […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why can’t you plan […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] to be passing information to Moscow, given that the UK and the USSR were allies and that Soviet scepticism about the genuine good faith and trustworthiness of Churchill and Roosevelt, notwithstanding all their assurances of friendship, could be mitigated by secret intelligence being passed to them by Philby and others, especially if this confirmed […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] but unwilling to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] have a standard rate of income tax that is at or higher than 33%. However, the UK has not had this level of taxation since 1978. When Churchill started his second term (1951) the standard rate of income tax was 45%; when Macmillan became PM (1959) it was 42.5%; when Wilson started (1964) it […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] is to attach it to an existing one. As is abundantly clear from the wealth of famous quotations that are falsely attributed to him, Lincoln – like Churchill and Einstein – is an ideal vector.75 Whoever drew up the original Lincoln-Kennedy list had produced a propaganda masterpiece. The Lincoln-Kennedy samizdat complemented the action that […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] privatisation and City corruption leave us if Johnson’s leadership is the best the citizens of the UK can be offered? Johnson sees himself as a latter-day Winston Churchill and in portraying the Covid virus as the enemy plays up to the emotional attachment many Britons have for him. But the sober-minded electorate decided in […]