Londongrad – From Russia with cash

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[…] entertain the likes of George Osbourne and Lord Mandelson. Some continued to dabble in the politics of their motherland and others with that of other countries, including Israel, with many oligarchs possessing passports from that country. The authors seek to measure the impact of their presence in Britain and list many ennobled Brits – […]

View from 92 copy

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

Treasury orthodoxy and sound money delusions (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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 […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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