A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to spot in today’s public services.’ The MPs’ expenses scandal, Owen Paterson, and the sunshine freebies offered to MPs and councillors by foreign governments all come to mind, not forgetting PPE contracts for pals and the rest of the moral turpitude of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. This political apprenticeship in Ayr seems to have […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[…] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. One last example of Stiglitz’s divorce from reality. He is still banging the tired old comparative advantage […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]

finklestein 1976

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[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] 23 November 1976 Tony Benn noted in his diary, ‘Peter suspected the figures produced by the Treasury.’ As did Prime Minister Callaghan: ‘The only doubt in my mind, borne of previous experience, was how far to trust the figures.’ James Callaghan, Time and Chance (London: Collins, 1987) p. 422. Healey wrote: ‘I cannot help […]

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[…] covered from time to time by this publication – principally by the editor in his View from the Bridge column. 2 See The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’ by Terry Gross for NPR, 9 September, 2019 at or . 3 Yes, I also thought ‘That shouldn’t […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life . . . .” ‘Clegg . . . had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and 9 23 Global Research, Nathan Allonby’s ‘Britain’s police state: London arrests based […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the February 2000 press release, mentioned above. The old mantra, ‘If you stick to the truth you won’t have to remember whatever lie you’ve told’ comes to mind. 9 have not done. My disagreement with him is that I don’t believe he could possibly now remember an unredacted name on an MI6 intelligence document […]

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