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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 […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by Epstein, launched his One Laptop per Child project in 2005. Addressing education and literacy in the non-developed world, and endorsed by many politicians (including notably, Gordon Brown), it ended in 2014 without coming anywhere near meeting its objectives. Similarly, a Global Hackathon involving Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Microsoft and many others, to ‘solve’ the […]

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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 […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had the air of a depressed man, knowing it may be too late to rebalance the UK economy and defeat the forces given freedom by Thatcher, Blair, Brown and successive governors of the Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Records of US Army Commands: Records Relating to Spandau Prison, 1947- 
 1987., DOD, Editor. 1987, National Archives and Records Administration, Tapes 1-36 77 Penn-Barwell, J., K. Brown, and C. Fries, ‘High velocity gunshot injuries to the 
 extremities: management on and off the battlefield’, Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine, 2015. 8: pp. 312–317. […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

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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 Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] new report came across my email transom that reminded me of some harsh realities in today’s Middle East. It was the latest Costs of War report from Brown University— The CIA’s Army: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. It stated, “the CIA is still running local militias in […]

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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 […]

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