Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would completely collapse the The presence of 8 DUP MPs increased the number required to bring down Johnson from about 40 to 45. Tim Bale in The New European 5 November 2020 notes that a Northern Research Group of 55 Conservative MPs has been formed and that the Tories may now be splintering. 3 […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] along with President Reagan, successfully pushed the advanced industrial states to take the free market rather than the Keynesian approach to global development advocated by Brandt. The new line, the foundation of what later became known as the Washington Consensus, was announced at the 1981 Cancun summit. Reading this and noting the very considerable […]

Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] contracts with British Nuclear Fuels plc (British Nuclear Group 2011) – called for the relaxation of planning and licensing laws, arguing that if this were to happen, new nuclear power stations could be built within ten years. (Parliament 2005) De Rivaz’s more explicit connection with the New Labour government was through Gordon Brown’s younger […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] learned that of the thirteen footnoted source references to me, all from more than forty paragraphs devoted to me in ‘Volume 5, Chapter 14’ of the defector’s notes, none were available for independent scrutiny, either in their original form or as photocopies. Then there was the issue of the chronology described in Mitrokhin’s account. […]

War on Terror Inc: Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in the process, so much […]

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