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Lobster Issue

[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.21 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But few in the intelligence community believed the Cubans were behind the phenomenon. Given Moscow’s outsize influence on the Communist-run nation, the prevailing theory was […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] by Henry Ford to become the Ford Motor Company’s representative in Europe. He later worked for Lufthansa and in the mid-30s was an attaché at the German Embassy in London. In 1938 he married Grand Duchess Kira of Russia, the second daughter of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, making him a cousin […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] meantime, preparations commenced. Additional telephone lines were installed for press use in Dublin, and the White House helpfully confirmed the identities of the persons ‘attached to the Embassy’ for the President’s visit and even of his personal security detail.7 A frantic search commenced to find Kennedy’s remaining Irish relatives. Distant cousins were unearthed and […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But few in the intelligence community believed the Cubans were behind the phenomenon. Given Moscow’s outsize influence on the Communist-run nation, the prevailing theory was […]

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