View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having recently given the Party £15 million.12 Hester has been getting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts from the NHS for […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] getting better and that the United Kingdom was about to become the most innovative country in the world, or, as Rishi Sunak put it at the 2021 Conservative Conference: “the most exciting place on the planet”. A government comprised of ministers apparently impervious to basic social and scientific facts had found that their only […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

Lobster Issue

[…] sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended in Britain by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] might resolve matters, he interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them ( Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] taken in evidence by the Metropolitan Police as the investigation unfolded. These still exist and point directly to the direct complicity of the CIA, Whitehall and the Conservative government in a murky tale of illegality and corruption at the heart of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations. Many got rich out of the inside knowledge […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] wanted the author to make a judgement: this one, although denied, looks true. He never does. So we finish as we began: Opus Dei, officially, is a conservative, proselytising sect within the Catholic Church. Its critics, including some former members, say it is also a conspiracy; that while there is a public front, a […]

Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] that recaptured the seat for Labour with a majority of 2,015. Garratt introduces his short but well-sourced book with events two years later which led to the Conservative party regaining Derby North in 2019 with 4.8 per cent swing and with Williamson coming bottom of the poll as an or 1 Independent with 635 […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] might resolve matters, he interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them ( Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there […]

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