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 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 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 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] Libyan government. Renamed Radio Jamharia, it anchored off Tobruk and broadcast ‘Libya International in English’, supporting and endorsing the Gaddafi regime, much of it aimed at neighbouring Egypt. This continued until 1984 when the ship was decommissioned, stripped of its fittings and sunk as a target for bombing practice by the Libyan air force. […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Belgrade. He didn’t fly out until the 16 December, and then by a convoluted route that took in Lisbon, the Canary Islands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the Sudan, Egypt and Greece. He is away until 20 February 1941. This section of the book, covering some 50 pages, is a brilliantly written piece of travel writing. […]