Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] the decade. In the medium and longer term the UK economy does not experience the ‘stop-go’ features that characterised the ‘50s and ‘60s. Suez (1956) A fter Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal, Britain and France attack Egypt, with the aim of re-establishing a Suez Canal Zone (that they will control), taking the canal back […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Laden, backed by elements within the Saudi government, did 9/11 and the buildings were demolished by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Denial is not a river in Egypt You may be all ‘Trumped–out’, tired of endless demonstrations of the obvious: the man is an obnoxious dummy.59 I’ve been keeping only half an eye on […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] commander in the Middle East, was a family friend – to secure a transfer to 52 Commando, going on to serve in Abyssinia. The unit returned to Egypt where they were tasked with guarding the docks in Alexandria and regularly came into conflict with offduty Australian soldiers. Smiley, in his biographer’s words, ‘condoned’ the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] UK to retain all its colonies ‘and such mandates as were needed for its political and military interests’ with ‘Germany possibly receiving compensation elsewhere’. (7) The Mediterranean, Egypt, French, Dutch and Belgian colonies were ‘open to discussion’. Mallet conveyed these to the UK where they were quickly rejected by Churchill and his cabinet on […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] and the continued British inability to defeat small German and Italian forces. (In using the term ‘British’ we should recognize that most of the troops that defended Egypt were either Indian or Australian.) Eventually the Desert campaign did turn in the UK’s Bowman’s book includes an addendum that discusses the Bengal Famine, in which […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] expansion into Africa, a view that Mosley and Yockey both shared. Yet by the mid-1950s Yockey began identifying with anti-colonial movements; he even spent time in Nasser’s Egypt. When the United See Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1879-1928 (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 (New York: Penguin Press, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] bottom of page 5. 16 elites refused to collaborate with London and there was resistance (as in China over the opium trade between the 1830s and 1850s, Egypt in 1882 and in West Africa and South Africa during the 1880s and 1890s), then the British would use military power. This is how the UK […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex-MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first mentioned Tunworth […]