Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] 2003. For Blair, war with Iraq was payback for US and corporate support (e.g. from Rupert Murdoch and the City of London) for his hijacking of the Labour Party in 1995. Blair then lied to the UK electorate over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and is widely regarded both as a war criminal […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] union. In fact, by the late 40s there were many pro-European bodies of which the European Union of Federalists (within which Kim Mackay MP was a rare Labour supporter), the European League for Economic Co-operation (led by Josef Retinger) and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe were the most prominent.14 There […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area ‘where information and disinformation […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] ‘Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it.’ See . 6 An excellent summary of how this tactic is used was provided by Jess Phillips ( Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley) in the Huffington Post. See or . 7 Time magazine listed a top 10 of those failures at 8 appetite for litigation […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] the role of William Shawcross as chairman of the Charity Commission and the Henry Jackson Society’s (HJS) sources of funding. They point out that a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and […]