View from the bridge

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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 […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but no newspaper would handle my friend Andy Chapman’s story about Chris More hacking phones inside a Manchester Conservative club, Howard Foster hushed me: ‘Just accept that Chris More is the Ultimate Hacker. Beyond your wildest imagination. He hacked a cabinet minister.’ As soon as […]

view from bridge

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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 […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with the White House. He introduced Hunt to Hughes’s security Magruder testimony, SWH (see note 14) Book 2, pp. 789-90. The Republicans had heard a rumor from conservative columnist Kevin Phillips that O’Brien or the DNC were taking kickbacks from convention vendors. (Magruder pp. 190-191). Confirmation could provide derogatory material with which to silence […]

Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared to allow social liberal positions); and how […]

Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

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[…] It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Simon Matthews is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s period as First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, for publication in 2026. Her son, Sir John Barlow, continued the political tradition sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative MP between 1945 and 1966. 8 5

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of either these days, at least on television. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, given the revolving door between the BBC News and Current Affairs department and the Conservative Party.10 Scott Newton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. I tried to cover some of these issues in my, ‘Historical […]

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