Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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, […]

GLADIO: NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: Gladio NATO’s dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis Richard Cottrell Progressive Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with ‘….entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, […]

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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)

[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, […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] 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, […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

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[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] discussed the attitude of the UK government toward joining the EEC on 15 October. Lemass thought a Labour government would be harder to deal with than a Conservative. Kennedy thought Labour would do more to get the UK into EEC. The US view was that Wilson would be more positive about Europe than Gaitskell. […]

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