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 […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] and the young Miller became ‘a Horowitz acolyte’. Miller ‘was awed by Horowitz’s ideas’, and came to see ‘this country as a white-forged masterpiece, unfairly demonized by brown hordes’. (pp. 6, 7, 75, 77, 78) When he left school, Miller published a condemnation of it on Horowitz’s website as ‘Left-Wing’, as ‘an institution not […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Estes’ grandson.12 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes about Wallace and the assassination. The putative witness to that meeting of Carter and Estes, one Kyle Brown, unnamed by Estes in his memoir, had previously confirmed the conversation’s existence and some of its content.13 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics […]

The Blair Supremacy A study in the politics of Labour’s party management by Lewis Minkin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] end Blair was no match for a Labour Party of entrenched traditions. Let’s reflect on the fact that a mere five years after the departure of Blair, Brown, Mandelson and Gould, the four apostles of New Labour, Jeremy Corbyn was elected as party leader. Today even the Blairite new leader, Keir Starmer, has had […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.43 It was all […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that time would have had a much greater interest in that subject – not that Mandelson would want to introduce his best mate to him (i.e. Gordon Brown). After leaving parliament both Blair and Mandelson went on to building their own political consultancies, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Mandelson’s Global Counsel […]

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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Balls from Morley and Outwood in 2015 after the New Labour machine had found a second ‘safe’ seat in Yorkshire for the friend and ally of Gordon Brown. Jenkyns, ‘the brainless nothing’, now sits on a Tory majority of 11,267. 1 2 comment . . . . He is an egotistical showman who just […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] as a result flowed via corporate tax and asset and bond purchases to governments (so helping to finance the expansion of the welfare state under Blair and Brown) and, via banks, building societies and finance companies, both to businesses and to millions of private citizens. Lending expanded, personal and corporate borrowing mushroomed. The most […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely […]

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