Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] topics such as foreign or social policy – or else they swallowed whole the current orthodoxy since they had no capacity to take an independent view. Gordon Brown fell into this latter category – Tony Blair the former. John Smith had only a rudimentary knowledge of economics, but was a little more confident on […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] reckless sex life.) 1 Simon Freeman & Barrie Penrose, Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe (London: Bloomsbury, 1996) 2 Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe (London: Little, Brown, 2014) There’s also a lot of material that he has left out. Let’s take but one example, that of Jack Straw, former president of the National […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] by Epstein, launched his One Laptop per Child project in 2005. Addressing education and literacy in the non-developed world, and endorsed by many politicians (including notably, Gordon Brown), it ended in 2014 without coming anywhere near meeting its objectives. Similarly, a Global Hackathon involving Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Microsoft and many others, to ‘solve’ the […]