Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[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 […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

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[…] now a Labour MP. He is a committed Christian Socialist and champion of gay rights. He is the author of a number of books, including a his tory of Christian Socialism; a two volume history of Parliament; biographies of Stafford Cripps and Glenda Jackson; an insufficiently critical history of the British aristocracy; and a […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] discussion of the CPGB-Moscow relationship, but which does not cover the ‘Moscow gold’, see ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain and Moscow’, Stephen Hopkins, in Labour His tory History Review, Vol 57, No. 3, Winter 1992. 1 For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 November […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] written a very interesting essay on the growth of the Kelly conspiracy theories.4 Cometh the hour A nd then there as the case of Rory Stewart, new Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, still sort of trying to deny that he was an MI6 officer. A piece in the Telegraph 5 said ‘Stewart […]

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] illiteracy of our politicians. I don’t mean their grasp of economic theory, most of which is bollocks or irrelevant; I mean their grasp of our economic his tory and the structural conflict between domestic and overseas economies. The last prime minister to understand this was Harold Wilson. Edward Heath did economics as part of […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[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, […]

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