Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] few which voted for Gould. Gould’s loss to Smith was the end of the anti-banker tendency in the Labour movement. Under John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown became shadow front bench spokesmen and were widely seen as the coming men. When John Smith died in 1994, Blair took over and NuLab began to […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] remain and I shall continue to remain, a strong supporter of the work of the Security Forces, as demonstrated by people like Alan Simpson, CID detective Johnston Brown who wrote Into the Dark (Dublin: Gill Publishing, 2006), plus thousands of other Security Force members who served honourably in Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’. I […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] fees as already existed. Even before Lord Falconer had finished his re-assessment, Mr Blair had resigned and the role of Prime Minister had been transferred to Gordon Brown. Given the historical rivalry between those successive PMs, there was surely a personal dimension to the remarks made by Gordon Brown during his speech ‘On Liberty’, […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] particularly those who knew Jack Ruby. Using the PDF version, I skimmed through it looking for interesting snippets. And there are many. Take ‘The voice of Kyle Brown’. The name rang a faint bell: somewhere in the Billy Sol Estes story Estes recalls that he had conversations with Johnson’s chief operator, Cliff Carter. He […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] Party, was Secretary of Common Cause from 1954-5621 (21), presumably from its inception, apparently in 1952: a piece in The Times announced Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and John Brown, ex-General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation as joint chairs. (DouglasHamilton turns up later in the 1950s as part of the de Courcy group […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] time.’ See . 6 For Kinnock and the Trotskyist IWC see The Times Guide to the Election 1970. South and Shoreditch after its sitting Labour MP Ron Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).7 With the SDP/Liberal Alliance polling 50% at this point (and leading the polls continuously from October 1981 to April […]