Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] altercation with a Jewish taxi driver who refused to accept her as a fare. His home was later petrol bombed in retaliation, ‘precipitating his subsequent emigration to Israel’. The NSM newspaper, The National Socialist, proudly proclaimed that ‘the Second Expulsion of the Jews has already begun’. (p. 293) Once again, acts of terrorism were […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can say […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]