A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] publishing Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump (2018), Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s ‘Witch Hunt’ (2019) and Coup D’Etat: Exposing Deep Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump (2020). Forthcoming he has an ‘exposé’ of the neo-Marxist, anti-capitalist global warming hoax, The Truth […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been a member of the 2016 Shadow Cabinet ‘chicken coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] just in the sense that it brought about a shift in the British political economy. It also seems to have had some of the qualities of a coup d’état, in that since that time we have been unable to alter the trajectory of the state, economy and society, whose journey to the market order […]

Misc reviews

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Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.38 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] taking office. In 1964, Lacerda would mount yet another propaganda blitz, this time against Quadros’s successor, President João Goulart.30 Lacerda soon became personally involved in the military coup of 31 March, which was supported by the CIA.31 Lacerda, then, was no saloon-bar braggart or armchair general, but a seasoned agitator, propagandist, and activist with […]

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