In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 2019, so one can only imagine what he might have to say about Johnson’s Covid role.3 In November 2017, while Patel is on an unauthorised trip to Israel (see below), Duncan writes: ‘Meanwhile Boris has made a costly gaffe. He said in evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is imprisoned […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] by the police and had all his electronic devices confiscated.17 Outrage? Resignation? Both? My main reaction was: as Winstanley has been one of the leading UK anti Israel voices for many years, why bust him now?18 Or is it that having confiscated other peoples’ phones – e.g. Sarah Wilkinson’s, discussed below – they are […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] by the police and had all his electronic devices confiscated.17 Outrage? Resignation? Both? My main reaction was: as Winstanley has been one of the leading UK anti Israel voices for many years, why bust him now?18 Or is it that having confiscated other peoples’ phones – e.g. Sarah Wilkinson’s, discussed below – they are […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] in thought, oblivious to the world.” Entity Tags: David Kuo, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Stephen Hayes Category Tags: All Day of 9/11 Events, Dick Cheney *new* Nixon and Israel Current events in the Middle East sent me back to the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when the American-Israel alliance was permanently rooted in American politics. The official […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] that government debt was higher in the 1950s, but HMG was then still paying off the debit created fighting WW2. Desperate stuff from Mr Timothy. *new* The Israel lobby In this column in Lobster 88, under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby,7 I noted the role of Morgan McSweeney and the organisation Labour […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] by the police and had all his electronic devices confiscated.17 Outrage? Resignation? Both? My main reaction was: as Winstanley has been one of the leading UK anti Israel voices for many years, why bust him now?18 Or is it that having confiscated other peoples’ phones – e.g. Sarah Wilkinson’s, discussed below – they are […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] . . All of us in that room did research these topics. This was a small community in the German-speaking area . There was also one in Israel with whom we were in close contact, and one in the USA, and in the Far East as well, and that was it. So, everybody knew […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] a major figure on the centre left of British politics for over 30 years11 but he cannot bring himself to mention the fact that it was largely Israel lobby money which funded the Starmer-McSweeney project. *new* Place your bets . . . The Times reported on 29 October that Hedge funds will be allowed […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] almost 40 years since Colin Wallace’s story began being reported, bringing IRD to our attention. *new* AIPAC When the events in Gaza began I wondered what the Israel lobby’s main body in the US – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – had been doing.5 The first few Google hits were about AIPAC […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] almost 40 years since Colin Wallace’s story began being reported, bringing IRD to our attention. *new* AIPAC When the events in Gaza began I wondered what the Israel lobby’s main body in the US, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), had been doing.5 The first few Google hits were about AIPAC funding Republicans. […]

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