Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] civil servant, Mrs Pat Middleton, but ruled in 2008 that her complaint about telephone tapping lay outside their jurisdiction. Mrs Middleton, 61, former treasurer of a Manchester Conservative club, has now discovered that the private investigator had previously worked for the News of the World and had just served a prison sentence. After seeing […]

Everybody now loves widgets!

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] export earnings of manufacturing.’ And he concluded that ‘we need to be in the vanguard of reindustrialisation.’ Who is David Green? He is director of Civitas, a conservative (and Conservative) think tank. The Telegraph’s business pages have run many articles in the last year about manufacturing, past and present, some looking enviously at the […]

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, […]

View from Bridge 87

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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 […]

View from Bridge 87

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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 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has interviewed the most heads of state and government’, which is true as far as it goes. 4 Sarah Curtis notes simply that Mr Lewis was: ‘ Conservative MP, elected 1997’ – which again, is true as far as it goes but does not reflect Mr Lewis’ status at the time or, for example, […]

You get the report you pay for

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on the nation’s doorstep will be an increasingly important asset, helping spread wealth and growth across the UK as a whole’, trills the advertorial, neatly addressing the Conservative government’s shaky, if not calamitous, relationship with ‘growth’ and ‘levelling up.’ How then does the CEBR report substantiate these claims? If one could sum it up […]

GArrick part one trial

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[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of online videos with […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] apologised to civil servants for his denigration of them but: One senior government source said: ‘Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall. But I blame him and the Conservative Party for 14 years of low pay, bad leadership and demoralisation which means we don’t have the right people in the right places.’7 How, one wonders, […]

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