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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund London: The Bodley Head, 2025, £25, h/b Colin Challen One of the earlier books seeking to answer the questions of who and what Keir Starmer is and represents was Oliver Eagleton’s The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right (Verso, 2022). […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] one thing we can be certain: it was Dennis Robertson who moved Polly Peck funds from Britain to Cyprus.’ Postscript: a licence to kill? In 2009, the BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera 3 Elizabeth Forsyth says: ‘I must make one matter clear, I was instrumental in handing documentation which I had been given during […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

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[PDF file]: […] point, my eyes started to roll into the back of my head – and it was only chapter one! See . His ‘SAS: Rouge Heroes’ for the BBC also stretches credibility because it purports to show events from the Second World War and yet the incidental music features thrashing heavy metal, a genre not […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

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[PDF file]: […] (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now director of the Global Policy Institute, a senior fellow of the Federal Trust and a prominent republican, opining recently on BBC Radio 4 on the forthcoming royal marriage. His latest book is a fulminating criticism of those elected to power in Britain while he was busy on […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Reuter correspondent in the Middle East I spent six months in Aden in 1966 and in 1967 reported the ArabIsraeli war. 2. In 1969, I left the BBC External Services to take a job as a specialist writer in the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] said once Jim and I returned to London, I would need to ‘settle my account’ before I received the money. MI6 expected me to sit in a BBC news television studio and claim The Cook Report story was a hoax. It would be worldwide breaking news. I could see it now. Exposing The Cook […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 The crisis Robin Ramsay The doom loop W e are now into the ‘doom loop’ described last year by Bank of England officials Alessandri and Haldane in which the banks, having discovered that their respective host states do not have the courage to regulate them, say ‘Thanks for the bailout’ and carry […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]

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