Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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 […]

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[…] significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction thirty years ago.21 Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The […]

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[…] think that after 40+ years of doing this that I would have learned not to trust my memory – especially in a field as complex as the Kennedy assassination. Alas I hadn’t, and in this case my memory was wrong. That isn’t all we know for sure. In fact there were three sections of […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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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[…] discussed in my ‘Blair and Israel’ in Lobster 43, which was republished in issue 73. 5 Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The […]

Also noticed

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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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[…] Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The […]

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[…] think that after 40+ years of doing this that I would have learned not to trust my memory – especially in a field as complex as the Kennedy assassination. Alas I hadn’t, and in this case my memory was wrong. That isn’t all we know for sure. In fact there were three sections of […]

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