Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] House Select Committee on Assassinations, May 16, 1978, 168-69, available at . Brod was actually recruited by Angleton in Italy in 1944; CIA memo by Jerrold B. Brown for Inspector General, July 1, 1975, re ‘Possible Questionable Activity’. For more on Brod and Angleton, see Gus Russo, The Outfit (New York: Bloomsbury, 2001), p. […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] reactions to his first Cabinet, to the government of all the talents concept, to his healthcare policy . . . and to his education policy.’ 4 Later, Brown would cast his long-term pollster Deborah Mattinson out of his magic circle. She seemed too insistent on telling him things he didn’t want to know, not […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] and troops? While these were undoubtedly factors, they affected how the unwinnable war unfolded rather than having any direct effect on the inevitable outcome. The Blair and Brown governments deserve censure for getting involved at all, rather than for somehow losing the war. It is worth briefly noticing here the dramatic falling out between […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.” He got that right.)’ 2 City lobbying H ow this has […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] to hold most of the cards and boast the better spokespeople. Major’s Chancellor Kenneth Clarke could make a united Europe sound as British as roast beef and brown ale, Major’s deputy Michael Heseltine gave it the aura of an exciting business enterprise and Tony Blair bestowed upon the project the glitter of a chic […]