Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] that I will bear true allegiance to the people, Parliament and democracy according to law.’ 14: The whole House of Commons should elect Select Committee chairmen by secret ballot, thus ending de facto appointment of chairmen by the party whips. 18: The people should directly elect the Prime Minister. He could be removed by […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] And, of course, the New Labour government threw money at McKinsey for consultancy contracts ‘from the NHS to the defence ministry’, the total amount a closely guarded secret. 7 McKinsey’s relationship with government has continued under Cameron: William Hague used to work for them and was welcomed by the Economist as ‘the McKinsey Foreign […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] inside information on a presidential campaign. The whole thing was so senseless and bungled that it almost looked like some kind of a setup.’ 1 In his Secret Agenda (1984) Jim Hougan showed that one of the phones the ‘plumbers’ targeted was being used by DNC staffers to book hookers.2 The ‘plumbers’ were after […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] after this exchange with Mr Challice, the Green Party’s sole MP, Caroline Lucas, revealed that she and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry had been subject to comprehensive secret surveillance by a police anti-extremism task force, the The National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.1 That stalwart friend of the spooks, Professor Anthony Glees, was on […]

Books on New Labour

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Friends of Israel

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Haters, Baiters and Would-be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and UK Far Right by Nick Toczek

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] data available about this society and its workings, let alone those abroad. The idea of 1 There are also substantial appendices on related figures and groups. mysterious secret societies of ‘others’ pulling the strings behind the curtain was less implausible than it is now.2 Even someone as sophisticated and politically connected as Alfred Milner […]

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