The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] among the allegations and rumours, thus far I have avoided trying to make sense of the Kincora scandal’s place in the Elm House-Savile-paedos-in-high-places thicket. However one s tory caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance […]

Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda by Nicholas O’Shaughnessy

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Goebbels as a very modern marketing innovator whose services would be in high demand today. From deranged men to mad men? If there’s a lesson from his tory about how to sell something, even something as odious as a nasty political creed, why not stoop to learn from it? That thought is arresting, since […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not snap shut. The Act has survived untouched and will irritate, annoy, and alarm state bureaucrats for at least the foreseeable future. With the previously mentioned his tory of governmental pressure upon FOI, its fans and foes alike are now in somewhat uncharted waters. However, we can perhaps draw some provisional observations by comparing […]

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[…] killed 28 people in a series of random shootings in Belgium in the 1980s.’1 Although Gladio was originally the name of the Italian network, when this s tory was revealed in the Italian press, Gladio became the shorthand for the entire multinational network. Officially Britain had no Gladio network. Almost nothing has come to […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of stout party Eden, Suez and America Simon Matthews Have you heard the one about the Conservative Prime Minister who is disowned by the right-wing of the Tory Party for not seeing through a bombastic and nationalist policy, and disowned by its left-wing for duplicity and generally ridiculed by the wider public? Forget 2017. […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has issued from British manufacturing as the overvalued pound began putting them out of business. This did not deter Brown. He wanted ‘stability’ and ‘an end to Tory boom and bust’ – phrases you must have heard a hundred times a year. But Brown defined ‘stability’ simply as low inflation – currency instability didn’t […]

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