Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: reformatted late 2023 The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] tacit supporter with the substantial caveat that ‘Mentally we are much too far from Europe ever to enter wholeheartedly into its politics’. That is, the UK didn’t mind a united Europe (because it would be less trouble and likely to be anti-communist) but wouldn’t participate fully in it.9 CoudenhoveKalergi spoke at Chatham House in […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Summer 2010 be overcome in order to lodge an application with the IPT. In order to ensure the efficiency of the secret surveillance regime, and bearing in mind the importance of such measures to the fight against terrorism and serious crime, the Court considers that the restrictions on the applicant’s rights in the context […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[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 […]