The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. He is […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo et al

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Mike Gapes, Wes Streeting, Frank Field, Joan Ryan, Stella Creasy and John Mann; former Labour Party General Secretary Lord Triesman; New Labour figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their respective funding organisers, Lords Levy and Mendelsohn; as well as fellow peers Mandelson, Hain, Reid, Blunkett, Hughes, Cunningham and Winston. In July 2019 these […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] now plan to control the entire non-EU world so that they can continue to extract raw materials and consume at their present rate. A lot of skinny brown, black and yellow people are going to die to enable a lot of fat Americans to stay fat. This new American empire will not be sustainable […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation layer, the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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

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[…] and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.’ Ambition Lord save us from people who just want to be the big I-am. We had Gordon Brown, who wanted to be the Big Yin. Gordon joined Labour and apparently was a socialist. Then he sniffed the wind and realised that he had to […]

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