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[…] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?16 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a Union Jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] record straight.4 One initial point to make about Stirling is that – inevitably – he was a toff. His father was Brigadier General Archibald Stirling, a former Conservative MP and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire, and his mother was Margaret Fraser, the daughter of the 13th Baron Lovat. He had attended Ampleforth public school and, […]

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[…] and former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too? Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a union jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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[…] of the public services after 40 years of denigration from the right, but glamour? And on 2 September we had former Tory MP Matthew Parris on the Conservative government’s recent decision to allow house-builders to be excused from clearing up the polluting effects of more houses. Parris was outraged but did not mention that […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

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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 […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with important information on Dr Kelly, including police officers and many of their interviewees, were not called as witnesses by Lord Hutton? Did you know that the Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

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