007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]

View from the bridge

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.9 It makes obvious political sense […]

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[…] Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take […]

When Will We Ever Learn? Lessons from the global financial crisis

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] New Zealand. Contrary to the expectations of many of us that the global financial crisis would be seen as a conclusive judgement on the failures of neo- liberal doctrine, it is the Right that seems to have emerged, for the time being at least, unscathed and emboldened by the failure of their policies. It […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] man”, and – he proclaimed on Israeli television – on a par with Auschwitz “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele’.10 All this and more was directed against a liberal Zionist, a strong supporter of Israel, who had dared to document and condemn the brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza in 2009. Eventually Goldstone […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] ever win?” Much the talk in political circles concerned the question of whether Britain might have become a oneparty state, along the lines of Japan, where the Liberal Democratic Party had been in power since 1955.’ There used to be a wisecrack along the lines of there having doubtless been an international summit to […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] Sir Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. While Straight claimed not to have provided the Soviets with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles. With Michael Straight’s confession, passed on to the British MI5, it was decided to have Philby’s […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.9 It makes obvious political sense […]

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