Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] brought unanimity? Lastly and, indeed, in the very last chapter of the book, Rosthorn demonstrates that the police deliberately withheld evidence from the defence team. If this hidden evidence had been used by the defence at the trial, alongside other evidence available at the time, it would have immediately indicated that the case against […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] high office in the United States’. (pp. 205-208) Indeed, Smock just cannot believe that Trump’s conduct in so many areas has not finally ‘stripped away all the hidden things that made him appeal to 60 million Americans’. Writing on 5 August 2019, he hoped that millions of those who voted for Trump in 2016 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] in supporting the Taliban is now comparatively well-known and widely acknowledged, the role of the Saudis in sponsoring first AQI and later Islamic State (ISIS) still remains hidden, indeed positively taboo. The best way to regard ISIS is as a monster created, at least in part, by a Saudi Frankenstein: a monster that has […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] One is certainly that the City of London was one of the beneficiaries of Afghan corruption, with billions of dollars being smuggled out of the country and hidden away in New York, London and the Gulf states. It is unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There […]