The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 38 OECD countries in terms of the tax-toGDP’.12 Looking further back, the figures show that, with the discovery of North Sea oil and the dominance of the Conservative Party in the 80s and 90s, the UK ‘burden’ fell. Between 1981 and 1995, the UK tax burden fell from a high of 33.9 per cent […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] of all things Brexit, until one realizes that their Governors include Michael Gove, Lord Johnson of Marylebone (brother of the PM), Lord Chadlington (President of the Witney Conservative association) and Lord Maude. They are certainly doing their bit for impartiality. As for his book, well . . . it’s all here: a perfectly fair […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] American speaker said that his own analysis had confirmed the broad conclusions indicated in the preceding International intervention. Most of our oil price assumptions were probably too conservative, but $12 looked outside the upper limit.’ 76 (emphases added) It is important to note that estimates to which the participants were referring were all in […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

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[PDF file]: […] British establishment. First, on 30 March 1979, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) managed to place a car bomb within the precincts of the Houses of Parliament. Conservative MP Airey Neave, a key figure in the rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] TaxPayers Alliance, and their influence was at its height during the brief time Liz Truss was Prime Minister. However, one must not underestimate their influence on successive Conservative governments. Bright describes the network as ‘the civil servants of the Bullingdon Club elite – the backroom nerds – who have been commissioned to formulate and […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England Sebastian Payne London: Macmillan, 2021, £21, h/b John Booth Whether Boris Johnson gets bored with No 10 or nervy Conservative Party funders push him out of the door, the author of Broken Heartlands finds little to comfort those hoping to see Sir Keir Starmer in Downing […]

What if…

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ready to tear up the roots just as things are getting better and trust your nation’s destiny to this extraordinary woman? Hardly a socialist question. Indeed, a conservative one. But it works. No, the nation rather comfortably replies, on the whole, we ain’t. It was a victory for consensus politics and the British way, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] inflame tensions between City and Europe’. Reading (just) between the lines of his speech it is obvious that Boris is offering himself as the leader of the Conservative Party who will take the UK out of the EU to preserve the City of London as the financial crime centre of the world economy. Footnotes-R-us […]

Just Boris by Sonia Purnell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] indeed the only popular politician, in Britain today. He is regarded by many commentators as by far the strongest contender to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, a prospect that most senior Conservatives regard with horror. He might well be our first pantomime prime minister. How has this British Berlusconi, this peculiar […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] his sums add up, the grim reality of the The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at or . 13 14 or 15 ‘Welcome to stagnation nation: Our Government has no money — and no strategy’, . 16 5 budget, buried […]

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