Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] favourable’. But there was also a history that ‘endowed the City with a talent pool and an infrastructure that enabled it to seize the moment’ and a New Labour government that ‘through a mixture of good luck and good judgement, enabled the City to make the most of these opportunities’. Augar sees Brown’s creation […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed a couple of the people who took part in the training of stay-behind groups in the cold war – the Gladio Network; […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] be familiar to Lobster readers from articles by myself and John Burnes in recent editions and there is no need to recycle it here. The most interesting new development concerns de Courcy’s connection with the Swedes. This revolved around the diplomat Bjorn Prytz, who was the intermediary between Britain and Germany in the abortive […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which point, the states will be under obligation to have purchased said new equipment. As of December 2003, 36 states have agreed to these obligations. (1) In the evolution in voting methods in America, from the mechanical lever machine […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] for Iwo Jima and has been described as the first film in which the balance of combat and public relations has been presented honestly.() However, in a new twist, Eastwood has also directed a second movie about Iwo Jima, as seen and felt by the Japanese, the latter’s goodwill relevant commercially as well as […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] Lee was interested in the international connections of the network, but was blocked from probing them by the powers-that-be. One major player he was especially interested in, New Yorker Ronald Stark, was suspected of having CIA connections. Ron Stark (1938-84) was first convicted in 1962 for making a false job application for government service […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: This is the final chapter of my The Rise of New Labour, published in 2002. It didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief […]
