The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] writes: ‘The British had, for several decades before 1917, been a preeminent colonial power in the Near East, demonstrated most vividly by their invasion and occupation of Egypt in 1882. From the 1890s onwards dramatic changes began to take place in the nature of imperialism. Whilst colonisation and colonialism would continue to exist, imperialism […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] to defend the idea of an American “deep state”. The 31 See, for example, or . 32 10 phrase “deep state” originated in countries like Turkey and Egypt, where a complex of military and security agencies manipulated the political system and operated in a completely non-transparent way to affect politics. This phrase was then […]

Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, but […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] are the opening few lines: This article seeks to defend the idea of an American “deep state”. The phrase “deep state” originated in countries like Turkey and Egypt, where a complex of military and security agencies manipulated the political system and operated in a completely non-transparent way to affect 10 See, for example, or […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] are the opening few lines: This article seeks to defend the idea of an American “deep state”. The phrase “deep state” originated in countries like Turkey and Egypt, where a complex of military and security agencies manipulated the political system and operated in a completely non-transparent way to affect politics. This phrase was then […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] been at the behest of the NKVD. Even though he had been an open member of the CP, working for a Comintern front, he ended up in Egypt, working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), ‘in the section dealing with Yugoslavia’. MI5’s reservations regarding this were dismissed by his commanding officer who told them […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 1931-1957 and later Chairman of the Monday Club 1976-1978. He resigned from Parliament in 1957 in anger at the UK ‘climbing down’ and abandoning military action against Egypt in 1956. Courtney was a career naval officer who ran the UK’s infiltration of agents into Latvia and Estonia in the late ‘40s, an operation that […]

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