Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party (PLP) were the dilapidated remains of New Labour, the construct that had effected some positive change in its 13 years under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but which had steadily lost members and electoral support before its 2010 defeat.4 Williamson had campaigned to make Ed Miliband leader and for a while was […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] voices and put faces to the names I 8 What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander Who really won the space race? 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 […]

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 […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] National Archives file AVIA 101/745 is perhaps most interesting not for what it contains but for its folder. In common with such files of government paperwork, the brown card ‘dust jacket’ bears columns that record to whom the completed file was referred and on what date, allowing a reader to trace its bureaucratic travels. […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] $2.07 at its peak in 2007). A strong pound is bad for the British manufacturing economy, making exports expensive and competing imports cheap. But Blair (and Chancellor Brown) didn’t care about manufacturing – or simply didn’t understand the impact the value of sterling had on it – or both. After all, we had the […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] 9/11 in 2001. The author details the propagandist role of the pro-Israel thinks tanks in Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story (London: Little, Brown, 2004) 1 The Dispatches programme on the Israel lobby is on YouTube at . The text of the programme is at or 2 2 demonising Muslims […]

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