The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to enhance his claim to the top Tory job, equally ambitious Starmer was mirroring in his bid to replace Corbyn. Eagleton suggests that the leftover coterie of New Labour Remainers – Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson – and their media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘ New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs – and read this short statement of their central belief. The IEA and its ilk sought: ‘perfect competition […]

Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 2 3 Luciana Berger, the ex-National Union of Students (NUS) officer who allegedly was romantically close to one of the Blair offspring as well as former New Labour MP Sion Simon, it failed to mention that her previous job had been as director of Labour Friends of Israel. To date few MPs seem […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he was (unwittingly) involved in this conspiracy at four points. He was actually with Lee Harvey Oswald in the incident when Oswald handed out pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans; he’d been sent down by his CIA contact to give the reluctant Oswald a hand. He claims he is in one of the photographs of […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] general election was bitterly fought. Liz Davies was originally chosen when an all-women shortlist had been used, but this news was greeted with utter dismay by the new elite running the party – an elite from that part of Islington which didn’t correspond to Jeremy Corbyn’s. (I surmise at this point that Jeremy and […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] exposure of outfits like Cambridge Analytica, the shady background of leave campaign finances and the huge growth in social media political messaging. Geoghegan doesn’t offer any particularly new facts or insights beyond what a reasonably attentive follower of serious news outlets may have garnered but his book does put the jigsaw pieces together very […]

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