Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] been deriding only a few days, let alone weeks, earlier. In a way their experience was a more vivid, concentrated and dramatic version of what happened to Labour after Neil Kinnock embraced the liberal rather than the social-democratic path to ‘modernisation’ after 1987. Maybe the result of the 1979 election was the watershed here […]

The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] critical of senior political and legal figures in Scotland while paying tribute to those north and south of the border who offered strong practical support, including veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell and emeritus law professor Robert Black of Edinburgh University. The Lockerbie Bombing lacks an index but is well footnoted in support of a […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] to a balance of political forces in the USA. This was characterised by the hegemony of Keynesian economics and by the existence of a strong, well organised labour movement committed to backing the New Deal and its successor programmes – Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society. This historic moment ended […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that they knew each other; but it is said that they were ‘old friends’. In 1997, Barak had arrived in London as the leader of Israel’s beleaguered Labour Party, seeking help to win the 1999 election. With the aid of Blair’s experts in Millbank, he won and remained prime minister for two years. After […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] taken seriously. This investigative breakthrough led to a short-term career working on Channel 4 news items and an unsuccessful attempt to influence the left wing of the Labour Party. However, since 1988 Ramsay’s been back in Hull, publishing Lobster as a one-man band, writing books and nipping at the heels of the high and […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] . 17 Powers (see note 7) p. 189. The ‘four’ to which Powers refers to here are his possible suspects in JFK’s assassination: ‘organised crime and crooked labour unions’, ‘Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro’ and ‘Castro himself’. 18 19 whom were intelligence assets of some kind, and that Oswald himself was some kind of […]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] pursued two consistent foreign policy principles since the French Revolution. The first is to control the seas and the access to cheap (or free) raw materials (including labour) throughout the world. The second has been to keep Europe divided against itself both to assure access to its markets and to weaken potential imperial competitors. […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] chapters about his unwitting support role in the JFK assassination which is recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. 19 Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front.

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