Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the ultimate plausibles party, had won a second landslide in four years. Now, Tony Blair and his imitators in other parties could not even win the popular vote in a referendum that would surely have been a walkover 16 years earlier, had there been one on Britain joining the Euro. But the vote in […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] for the resolution but without enthusiasm, without optimism, without joy, and without the feeling that we were contributing to the adoption of a constructive measure.’ ‘After the Vote,’ Time, (29 March, 1954), p. 32. 26 Winter 2010 A rbenz turned to the welcoming ears of the Soviets, who obliged by sending him arms through […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] that fits S peaking at an event just before International Women’s Day, Women and Equalities Minister Nicky Morgan MP declared that ‘women fought and died for the vote’. Ms Morgan was talking out of her arse and doing it so blatantly that it’s hard to believe it was accidental. The Suffragettes – she can […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] possible reason would there be for not using the existing constituency-based electoral organisation? I can think of only one, the one the author suggests: to rig the vote, if necessary. He notes that Cord Meyer was London CIA station chief at this point. Did Meyer bring ballot-rigging expertise from the CIA? This is not […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] fascinating. In February, Sir Nicholas MacPherson, the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, gave formal written advice to ministers about whether – in the aftermath of an independence vote – Scotland should be allowed to retain the pound as its currency. He argued against, claiming: * Scotland might move to another currency in the longer […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and the big noises of politics, capital and the state. In this […]