The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the privatisers: 1. The public service ethos did exist and was most valuable in maintaining standards, continuity and honesty within public provision. 2. Multiplying the opportunities for fraud inevitably results in more fraud. The Wiki entry on him is incomplete but conveys something of this. He contributed ‘Laissez faire as religion’ to Lobster 58. […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] at the count were immediately briefed, they understood the situation, and did not think it significant to report.’ As shown by the current investigations into Tory expenses fraud during the 2015 election campaign,4 there are legitimate reasons to be sceptical about the results. The stories discussed above, however, are not legitimate reasons for scepticism. […]

View from

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[…] suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.15 But the general point in all this must be that if you run elections with computer systems you will get fraud and theft. Back to paper! *new* MAHA? RFK Jnr certainly has fallen among the American anti-vaxxers as I noted a while back;16 and he is prone […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] corresponded with Chris Fay, formerly a Labour councillor in Greenwich (19861990) who was eventually expelled from the Labour Party and later jailed for being party to a fraud perpetrated against old age pensioners.4 It also appears to be the case that both 3 The press reported that the brother of Danczuk’s ex-partner – who […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] . . nonsense, material that is almost beyond criticism. Here are two examples from the site’s first two screens when I looked. According to this CDC health fraud detection expert the number of vaccine deaths in the U.S. is not 15,386 but somewhere between 80,000 and 160,000.55 (emphasis in the original) One of the […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] The “Wigan Alps” story was offered to the Daily Mail and the Guardian just before the general election of February 1974. (113) (i) Allegations of income tax fraud by Labour ministers Once again this surfaces in Pincher (114) in “two long letters . . . from a man claiming to be an officer of […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton was acknowledging that The Protocols were a fraud, but at the same time insisting that the Jewish conspiracy they exposed was undoubtedly real. (p. 222) In February 1967, the League merged with the then […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] but by ‘the perception that the Afghan government was “irrevocably corrupt”’. The 2009 Presidential election gave public notice of the extent of the corruption with the electoral fraud ‘so egregious and widespread as to stun even seasoned election monitors’. Subsequently, Karzai pacified international opinion by promising to curb corruption. When he made the public […]

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