Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Sorene ‘will lead BICOM after 15 years in senior positions at the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health….Previously head of public affairs at the Israeli embassy in London, Mr Sorene has experience of working on Middle East issues.’40 Perhaps it’s not too surprising that Baroness Tonge resigned the LibDem whip after speaking […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] her simple-minded views made a good impression on the gathering may tell us a lot about those present; but she had already been spotted by the US embassy in London and had been given an extensive American tour in 1967 at US expense.1 If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why […]