The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. *new* Slating Slate ‘We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition’ ran the selfcongratula tory headline to a 22 October piece on Slate.com.2 This claim, though, was complete hogwash. All they had succeeded in doing was to exploit the poor methodology […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] e-mail from David Challice, party administrator at UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the s tory concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Lords membership, the total numbers aren’t great, but even so finding ten Labour peers with current or very recent remunerated cyber security interests and only one Tory suggests the area has a particular appeal. My review of the Register has probably missed a few others, possibly on both sides, since not all entries […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Thatcherism’ – championing big business, deregulating the financial sector, continuing privatisations and effectively handing the state over to business consultants. After 2008, Brown prepared the way for Tory Austerity and the creation of contemporary Food Bank Britain, afloat in a sea of raw sewage courtesy of the privatised water companies and their shareholders. For […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

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[PDF file]: […] any change of administration is followed immediately by a slew of books, as its participants cash in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of his tory into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] over their Daily Expresses (it was an Express reporter who coined the ‘Mad Mitch’ soubriquet), in the midst of a generally dispiriting period in their international his tory (for those who bothered about these things); before Crater was finally evacuated, and the Argylls flown back to ‘a grey cold, depressing Britain’ to the strains […]

Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] looked last. 1 Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. This is a condensation of his ‘Covid-19 and the Failure of the Neoliberal Regula tory State’, (co-authored with Australian Professor Shahar Hameiri) in the Review of International Political Economy. 2 Forsyth implicitly and Jones explicitly are condemning the neoliberalism we have […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] help fix it Alastair Campbell London: Hutchinson Heinemann, £22.00 John Booth Here we have two approaches to politics and public life which are also partly the s tory of two Neils. Neil Findlay is a former Labour member of the Scottish Parliament and a long-time grass-roots activist. Neil Kinnock was the Labour leader who […]

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