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

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[…] 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 […]

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] University Press, 2013, £17.99, p/b This is a ferocious book. The author, Douglas Porch, has written a number of very good books over the years (The French Secret Services, The Conquest of Morocco, The Conquest of the Sahara and more), but nothing quite like this. It was conceived, he tells us, ‘in the classrooms […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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[PDF file]: […] settled, creating a febrile if not or 1 2 feverish atmosphere of intrigue.2 Into this in 2021 we find McSweeney at his conspiratorial best, seeking through his secret WhatsApp group, ‘Project EX’, to achieve a change in the rules for the election of party leader – to exclude the possibility of another Corbyn (or […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and mock the thinking processes of those who advocate them. But in doing so academics and journalists are contaminating the good theories with the bad, lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A recommended account is The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann (London: St Martin’s Press, 2009.) The description of Rich’s recruitment criteria given to Ammann seems to fit the young […]

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