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 […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to undermine the military effort in Afghanistan for political advantage. After Brown’s defeat, Murdoch, Brooks and co must have felt that their power and influence had reached new, triumphant heights. With Andy Coulson at No 10, with Brooks having established herself as Cameron’s best friend and riding partner3 and with their creature Gove at […]

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. […]

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 […]

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