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[…] idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.3 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s 1977 plan to fight the miners on the government’s terms, the so-called Ridley Plan for Coal, was rediscovered a few weeks into the […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart espouses many soft-left (for a Conservative) ideas. Many within his own party would probably see Rory Stewart as a neater fit within Labour, just as many within Labour saw Blair’s more natural […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the source of the organisation’s funding. It reported that ‘a great many dollars are coming from America’ or, put more simply, ‘there are Yankee dollars behind it’. Conservative sources reported that this US-funded British pressure group intended ‘to spend a considerable number of dollars over the years in this country with the purpose of […]

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[…] might not have obtained in normal circumstances as a reward for their dishonesty. This is followed by a catalogue of allegations – the majority of them involving Conservative Party and/or establishment (i.e. senior police/senior military/ royal family) figures – with many of the accusations being that children were physically and sexually abused. And that […]

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

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[…] might not have obtained in normal circumstances as a reward for their dishonesty. This is followed by a catalogue of allegations – the majority of them involving Conservative Party and/or establishment (i.e. senior police/senior military/ royal family) figures – with many of the accusations being that children were physically and sexually abused. And that […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his chief of staff were decidedly frosty too. (pp. 63-64) It is worth remembering here that McCain was not some sort of liberal, but a right-wing warmongering conservative who just could not stomach Trump’s ignorance, dishonesty and corruption. This, one cannot help but thinking, is what Sopel considers the limit of legitimate opposition to […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of racial violence and vandalism. There would be much more horror to come’. And ‘at least two prominent white supremacist organizations – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – saw their websites crash due to the flood of online traffic that came their way following Obama’s victory’. Incredibly, Johnson has had the faces […]

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

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