Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] garbage. Let me leave poor Mr Draper aside for two other examples. Ben Lucas of Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (known as ‘LLM’) learned that on June 11, Gordon Brown would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called […]

It’s all Jacques to me

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] back then, and I seem to remember noting this in Lobster, it was Geoff Mulgan who was responsible for the Labour programme of re-nationalisation, while helping out Brown. Hindsight carries with it some sort tang of self-awareness and here it is not just our leaders that are flying blind. I’ve never found anything of […]

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] interview in Steamshovel Press, no. 8, 1993. Her version of the File is available from her direct at PO Box 1292, Cragsmoor, NY 12420, USA for $14.95. Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. xix plus 651 pp. Bibliography, index. An honest work that attempts to […]

Inside Gordon’s head

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]

Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] the Mafia notoriously say, ‘things change’ but it looked, by May Day, that deadlines were being set. Blair has set a framework for terrorism and security that Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of […]

Socialist Renewal publications

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] have been fun doing it. He could just have published the US Space Command brochure. The Captive Party: How Labour was taken over by Capital Michael Barratt Brown Socialist Renewal, new series, no. 2, £5.00 Very useful and clearly written, this is a 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] career, to Roy (now Lord) Hattersley. Lord Cashpoint’s memory A Foreign Office colleague of McShane and Foulkes under Blair was Michael Levy whose memoirs attacking Blair, Gordon Brown and the state of the Labour Party were serialised in The Mail on Sunday just before the May municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten […]

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