The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was aware of financial operations, apparently involving significant money balances, mentioned in the second expert report of East Star Capital. In this context, the Tribunal had in mind the definition and characteristics of money laundering.’ and ‘158. If substantial tests and proof of the activities of Manas Bank in money laundering had been produced […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: What just happened Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze London: Allen Lane, 2018, h/b, £30.00 Robin Ramsay I once heard a history professor describe another history professor I knew as ‘a very good, old-fashioned narrative historian’. I wasn’t entirely sure what he meant but I got the pejorative message. […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Interpretation’, Sociological Review, volume 3 (1910). 6 4 stock market and to changes in State pension levels. This can all make for considerable anxiety, a state of mind likely to be intensified by rapid shifts in the political, economic and social environment. What had been seen as the stable and unchanging values of the […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but a man laying down a trail we were supposed to follow….The man’s task appears to have been to make himself unforgettable.’ Other puzzling questions come to mind. Are we to think that the US government simulation of a domestic bioterror attack in June 2001 that blamed Saddam Hussein for sourcing the toxic bacteria […]

The Collapse of Globalism

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[…] the chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006: ‘If you believe that history has come to an end, you explicitly banish memory from your mind. Greenspan was “shocked”. Like a small child who had ventured into a world beyond his experience or imagination, he did “not fully understand why it had […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] unfolds. Steele observed the collapse of Soviet Communism firsthand. He describes one particularly telling incident he witnessed in Moscow in 1991 that very much sticks in the mind, both his and mine. He saw a car crashed into a lamp-post with a dead driver at the wheel on his way home one Friday night […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] October 2018. Michael Sinclair is Executive Director of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Programme, and was previously Vice President of the Henry J Kaiser Foundation. 19 come to mind, for none of which hindsight is a requirement. Leading the way is the lack of action to establish a written constitution for the UK. A demand […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Spies for Hire (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008) p. 116 Cloud services market study (final report) – Ofcom or . 5 3 Bearing all this in mind, I think I will choose not to become an unpaid tendril of the intelligence gatherers. It has been asked online whether it is indeed possible to […]

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