Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] obtained from the ‘sniper’s nest’ from 1 The group consisted of Richard Bartholomew and John Frazer Harrison in Austin and Barr McClellan, then based in Houston. Walt Brown was recruited for the purpose of fronting the press conference at which the information was released. (Information from Richard Bartholomew.) which Kennedy was supposedly shot. The […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the UK’s underlying issues. After the Iraq war and the banking crisis there was little shine left on the New Labour brand. The successors to Blair and Brown were left to pick up the English and Welsh pieces, Scotland by then having shed much of its 20th century loyalty to Labour. Corbyn revived the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] electoral participation by the young (so noticeable post-1997) was due to a combination of youth culture drifting into slick consumerism and political leaders – like Blair and Brown – not being prepared to do very much, unless they have the agreement of (perpetually) undecided voters. Despite repeated electoral endorsements, the Labour years continued with […]