Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Most of them are ex-MPs who will have been frustrated with their former colleague’s wayward ways. It is worth noting at this point that another peer, Baroness Kennedy of Cradley, lists being chief of staff to Tom Watson MP, the anti-Corbyn deputy leader of the party, as a remunerated position. Her husband is Baron […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Treasure Islands Tax havens and the men who stole the world Nicholas Shaxson London: the Bodley Head, 2011, £14.99, p/b ‘Reading Treasure Islands I have realised that injustice is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it […]

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[…] uses the word ‘oil’ once. By their omissions . . . . *new* Bubbles Consortiumnews carried an interesting piece by Patrick Lawrence on the death of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran.5 Kennedy Jnr.’s experience as a hostage led him to understand and empathise with his Iranian captors and, on […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: The David Kelly mystery John Booth An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising […]

America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Caig and Frederick Logevall

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] But this rhetoric is not matched by analysis of some of the historical events. The biggest threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] way that the 1975 showing of the Zapruder film on US TV was: after the Z 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Pat Buchanan?32 A fake arms race? Larry Hancock is probably best known to readers of this column as the author of a very good book on the Kennedy assassination, Someone Would Have Talked.33 But he writes on a wide range of issues and his perceptions of the geopolitical world are always interesting. In a […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] government in place with a working majority until 2011-2012. Brown – who in Mattinson’s account is surrounded by US advisers and even calls an ailing Senator Edward Kennedy at one point to ask if a general election should be called in the UK – decided against an autumn 2007 general election.2 2 Why? The […]

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Contents Also noticed Smoke down our lungs and smoke up our asses The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Allan M Brandt New York: Basic Books, 2009. 600 pp. Illustrations, references, sources, index. Allan M Brandt is, amongst other things, a Professor of the History of Medicine […]

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