Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]
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. […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] all part of Biblical prophecy. In February 1983, Falwell told a Texas newspaper that he favoured Israel ‘taking portions of present day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan and all of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait’.32 Falwell’s Moral Majority was disbanded in 1989, partly as a result of evangelical disappointment with Reagan’s administration which […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] and media pressure. He also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior to speaking with Boris Johnson. 4 Massively exaggerated in the sense that the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] to oust President Nasser in 1956. That decent traditional Tory, Anthony Eden, had covertly conspired with the French and the Israelis to launch an unprovoked attack on Egypt. The only reason this invasion did not descend into a bloody, protracted quagmire was that on this occasion the United States forced the aggressors to retreat. […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must get […]