Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 excised […]

The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] turn led to the desire to wipe out the indigenous Indian population, or at least to send them to Oklahoma, creating the res nullis upon which the liberal myth of America is based: that settlers moved into empty land as ‘God’s gift’. British settlers, forced out by the enclosures of UK land,3 knew that […]

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

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] became David Cameron’s Attorney General after the 2010 election. The only Parliamentarian who has expressed any sustained interest in the fate of Dr Kelly is the former Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker. His The Strange Death of David Kelly1 was published in 2007. Goslett acknowledges the help of Baker, whose extensive efforts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] encourage enterprise’ at . An earlier paper by Ussher, 100 pages of it, published by Demos, is thoroughly trashed by Richard Smith’s ‘Why is a Powerful Faux Liberal UK Think Tank Using a Tarnished Pol and Recycled US Republican Talking Points to Fight Breaking Up Banks?’ at . Smith’s account of the Ussher paper […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Kimche, who befriended Olivia after her IDF boyfriend – the first man to love her as a woman – was killed. On this account, Kimche was a liberal Israeli, who detested Ariel Sharon and the militaristic Israeli right-wing then on the rise. The second section of the book takes place after Olivia leaves Mossad, […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant Bernard Porter The Assange affair rumbles on. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at a cost of God knows how much to the taxpayers of Ecuador, and more to those of the UK, to pay for the police stationed around it ready to whisk him […]

Pulp Fiction: Two books About Bilderberg

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] ‘A partnership heading for destruction’, Financial Times, 23 May 2003; ‘The transatlantic divide must not be allowed to widen’, Financial Times, 23 June 2004; ‘America needs ” liberal realism” at the heart of its foreign policy’, Financial Times, 14 June 2006; and ‘The looming 100-year US-China conflict’, Financial Times, 5 June 2019. 4 2 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] safely ignored for the rest of time. ‘The Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, set out his vision for a liberal Brexit in a speech at Policy Exchange.’ 26 From the Policy Exchange speech: ‘As I have just discovered we have more than a million people who […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] of substance in the Hughes collection? Two names lay claim to some thoughtful analysis: Larry Elliott and Andy Beckett. Elliott has been a consistent critic of neo- liberal orthodoxy on the business pages for the lifetime of New Labour. Beckett, who caught up with the British American Project in The Guardian seven years after […]

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