Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] foremost a British term (derived from cricket). 10 A short but useful academic overview has since been published – see ‘Falafel and Apple Pie’, Dahlia Scheindlin and Israel WaismelManor (in Routledge Handbook of Political Management, 2009) Page 35 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1990, where their novelist candidate Mario Vargas Llosa ignored their advice and […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like to […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] broadcasting. A core part of his creed was that the white citizens of the US, UK and British Commonwealth were the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and therefore entitled, according to Biblical prophesy, to inherit the Earth. Armstrong and the Radio Church of God also took the view that the coming Armageddon […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] with Tehran. To achieve this, he ordered the CIA to set up a network of legitimate companies across Europe and the Middle East, in particular Britain and Israel, in order to secretly supply illegal arms to Iran. The main British company, called Allivane International, was set up at Cumbernauld near Glasgow with CIA money […]