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[…] 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of the manufacturing sector of the economy; gave the bankers their heads and helped create the economic crisis of the mid 2000s, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] years 8 See for example Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. 9 These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the English political stage seem able to contemplate changes to this. Certainly the efforts of Labour pre-2010 do not inspire confidence. Great store was set by Gordon Brown in 2009 in the establishment of the International Centre for Financial Regulation was announced. Designed to map out the future of responsible capitalism, it came with […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] of, the Kincora situation. This report listed a wide range of Loyalist politicians and other personalities, including Sir Knox Cunningham QC MP, Mr Clifford Smith, Mr David Brown (editor of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s newspaper, the Protestant Telegraph), Mr Thomas Passmore and the Rev. Martin Smyth, both key figures in the Orange Order. There […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

View from 92

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[…] be believed until reliable other sources have confirmed it as real. *new* Broon Despite being the unapologetic co-parent of the financial disaster of 2007-9, 1 1 Gordon Brown still has access to the Guardian’s columns for his banalities. In a recent piece,2 he wrote: the US has abandoned its longstanding championing of the rule […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] knew better than his superiors what the Arabs planned to do’.102 98 Golan (see note 90) p. 42. 99 Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, (New York: Little, Brown & Co.) 1982, p. 450. 100 Ibid. p. 459. 101 Alistair Horne, Kissinger’s Year: 1973 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009), p. 228. Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Orwell describes how the so-called anti-fascists (as in today’s Antifa) eventually prove themselves to be the real fascists’. (p. 219) He seriously compares Antifa to the Nazi Brown Shirts and to the Ku Klux Klan – and, in doing so, manages to ignore the fact that both the contemporary US neo-Nazis and the KKK […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] highly technical areas of public services, such as environmental monitoring, finance and digital technologies. This became apparent in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Blair/ Brown years, during the period of the Coalition government’s policy to slash spending on consultants. In one instance, a major rail franchise tender was withdrawn because the […]

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