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 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 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] likely, recent MRI scans suggest), hormones – but they are a very limited version of our species. Did he no ken? Let me recommend Simon Lee’s ‘Gordon Brown and the British Way of RiskBased Modernization’.1 This is the author’s summary. ‘In Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, Gordon Brown has sought […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Aquino ran when her husband – Marcos’ political rival – was murdered at Manila airport on his return to challenge the president.1 4 SMG sent Mark Malloch Brown, a journalist with a South African background who had worked for The Economist.1 5 Malloch Brown developed what SMG called a ‘backboard shot’: if one can’t […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] became his Shadow Chancellor in 2015, and he has a better grasp of Labour history. He had grown up during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and identified with their critics who had seen the party’s loss of members, confidence and popular support from the New Labour high point of 1997. Jones […]