Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] high exchange rate. The UK index of industrial production slumped from 113.1 in 1979 (1975 = 100) to 100 in 1982. Manufacturing Christy Cooney, ‘Nigel Lawson: former Conservative chancellor dies aged 91’, The Guardian, 3 April 2023. 3 See Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical (London: Corgi, 1993), […]

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[…] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?34 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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[…] 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 […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] context. 2 REVIEW INTO THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE (AND ASSOCIATED SCHEMES) IN GOVERNMENT (caps in original) at or . 3 1 The contemporary Conservative politician has relatively few core beliefs but one of them is ‘public bad, private good’. Anyone who suggests getting the private sector into the state’s activities […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the Guardian hunted […]

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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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neo Conservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer and not a member of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Review of Books: ‘Real-term wages in Britain today are no higher than they were in 2005. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a succession of mostly Conservative politicians has sought to assure the British people that once the difficult bit (first austerity, then Brexit, then Covid) is behind us, the good times will […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Special Forces (SF) personnel. In the case of ArmorGroup, employees also included former senior MI6 officer Andrew Fulton,1 2 who has also been Chair of the Scottish Conservative Party. The listed contact for ArmorGroup in Iraq is ‘Country Manager’ John Farr MBE, who is ex-Parachute Regiment and possibly UK SF. He received his MBE […]

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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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