Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel cause and regularly sees Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch’s neo-con point man on matters Middle Eastern and much […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 16 March 2000. Trevor Rees-Jones with Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s story: Diana, the crash and the sole survivor, (London: Little, Brown, 2000.) One gets the impression that Moira Johnston did the bulk of the writing. An earlier book of hers, Spectral evidence: the Ramona Case – incest, […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] no ground was visible: the mangrove trees were standing in water into which their roots plunged. To make progress, we either had to slosh through waist-deep, dark- brown liquid, making a dangerous amount of noise, or hop from one root to the next – a laborious and exhausting process which wore the arches of […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] the book is devoted to the often shocking testimony of prisoners, both those still inside and protesting their innocence, and those who have been released, including Robert Brown, who was convicted of murder in 1977 after being fitted up by corrupt police officers, and released in 2002 after serving 25 years, all the time […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] then became almost the “common sense” of the initial phase of the globalisation that followed the collapse of communism in the 1980s.’ Notes 2 Here is Gordon Brown on 26 February 1992: ‘Let no one, absolutely no one on the Conservative benches, try to peddle the misleading statement that the Labour party is not […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] the supposed links between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.’ And there’s more, ‘Case Closed answers all lingering questions about the assassination.’ Harold Evans, aka Mr Tina Brown, was editor-in-chief of Random House at the time and, according to Posner, Evans himself actually wrote all this hyperbole. What a sad descent for someone who […]