Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US was forced to abandon conversion of dollars to gold in 1971, oil producers in the Middle East coupled their distaste for the US support for Israel with a demand for higher prices for their oil. As events since the war in Ukraine began have shown, increases in energy costs feed through into […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis31 The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is a light veneer of accountability for the UK’s spooks to hide […]

Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey by Kerry Bolton

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1879-1928 (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 (New York: Penguin Press, 2017). 16 Kingdom, France, and Israel tried to retake the Suez Canal in 1956, a move opposed by both the United States and the Soviet Union, where was Yockey? When Nasser backed […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how New Labour stopped listening to the […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for countering that. He chairs the watchdog Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA).21 But he also does some lobbying himself as chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel group in the House of Lords.22 Perhaps it was to Pickles and his ilk that Millett directed part of his closing statement: ‘True regret is not […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] film the official version that all the shots came from behind Kennedy became an absurdity. After ‘the lobby’ films no-one can seriously deny the existence of the Israel lobby. The future of Britain’s crisis30 The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is a light veneer of accountability for the UK’s spooks to hide […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026) FREE

[PDF file]: […] owned overseas. See the review by John Booth at or . 13 5 Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead Israel and Dallas, I stated ‘All we know for sure is that Angleton’s department of the CIA was reading Oswald’s mail in America after his return from […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it wasn’t worth trying at all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up a separate […]

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