The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one Thomas Wood which began: I wonder if you might be interested in reviewing a novel I have written which […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book – though in May 1981 Livingstone could perhaps be forgiven for missing the event given that he was then fully occupied (at County Hall) in the coup that removed Andrew Mackintosh as leader of the GLC. The reader may also reflect that it is curious that Livingstone, Abbot and their little band of […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the continuities from Thatcher to Major. Now, there is no doubt that the Major government helped to embed the Thatcherite settlement – for example by administering the coup de grâce to the coal miners with its pit closure programme, privatising the railways and sustaining the ‘two-nations’ scapegoating strategy started under its predecessor. At the […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Telegraph 24 May, the UK figure was given as 82.5pc of GDP. Page 17 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 ‘It is as if there has been a silent coup d’état – instead of the taxpayers owning the banks, the banks now seem to own the taxpayers. They have been given access to the present and […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out within UK politics by an establishment that regards cleaving to the US as an essential ritual. Was this the first overt change carried out […]

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 Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

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