Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] could never be met. Assuming they thought about it, the creation of such pseudo-intellectual formulae, by an unelected adviser, was actually quite an insult by Blair and Brown to the UK’s many natural European allies. One of the book’s endorsers, Lawrence Freedman, had a hand in devising the 1999 Blair Doctrine, which set out […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] 58 events which interest me and have been less well reported. This takes us to the core of the NuLab story, for it shows that the Blair- Brown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] – an entirely private decision made against all the advice tendered, by a man who was never called on to answer for the consequences. (Rather like Gordon Brown in 2007). triumphant on all fronts. In the US more recently other works of this type have included Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004) which […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] a major piece of work by any standards. What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander 10 Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b Thom Burnett both London: Collis and Brown, £8.99, p/b These are two of the first batch of a new series, Conspiracy Books. Which might lead you to suspect you’d get a conspiracy or […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Miller of the true extent of the ‘old boys network’ between the British government (or, more accurately, the British state) and banks.8 Cat and mice While Gordon Brown was on holiday in the summer the shop was being minded first by Harriet Harman and then by Peter Mandelson. Mandy did his annual hanging-out in […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Oswald was living at the time. During their journey toward the heart of the city, the young man (who was carrying a long slim package wrapped in brown paper, which he said contained ‘curtain rods’), chatted excitedly about President Kennedy’s impending trip to Dallas and tried to engage a reluctant Yates in conversation about […]