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Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

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[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

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[PDF file]: […] of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what is taught in a dictator’s secondary schools defines the capabilities […]

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[…] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for them? Lord Levy’s levy I was a member of the Labour Party for about 20 years, finally quitting when the UK joined the US assault on Iraq. Hence my interest in the ‘anti-semitism– in–Labour’ issue. What is happening would be comic were its consequences not so serious. Though I’m not sure what the […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] gave an “assignment” to transmit $300,000 for the killing of his friend Abu al-Walid when the CIA was concerned al-Walid on leaving Chechnya would go on to Iraq to join up with al-Zarqawi. Why would Dunlop a reputable scholar present the meeting in Khashoggi’s villa as a mere plan for a Russian 9/11 at […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] is a disaster that was predicted only by Middle Eastern experts, post-conflict planners and several million members of the public…… The banking crisis…..A nice financial counterpoint to Iraq. Virtually destroy the western financial system in the name of greed. Get bailed out by the taxpayers who you’ve been ripping off. And then carry on […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with him really strongly. He achieved a certain notoriety when he recommended that the United States embrace its Imperial destiny and send out enlightened administrators to run Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the same way that the British Empire had been run (p. 49). He had obviously been reading too much Niall Ferguson! For […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] enjoy it, and the fact that it seems futile, objectively, doesn’t mean that its not worth doing.” As he surveys the world through the prism of war-torn Iraq and escalating tensions between Islam and the West. Ramsay’s take on the world is frighteningly pessimistic but articulated in his trademark trenchant tones. “The Americans now […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Taliban without US support, which did rather suggest that they would need continued US support to remain in power. The shift in US attention and resources to Iraq was, from this point of view, a disaster. Second, the Northern Alliance was a gangster organisation of warlords and drug traffickers. Putting them in power was […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] a minister in Labour governments led by Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair, died in 2015. He was an early critic of Blair’s decision to invade Iraq 8 and his 2003 Guardian article on 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’ foreshadowed much of what we are hearing from Carlson and his Republican interviewees […]