Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: Whatever Happened to Tommy the Red? Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power Tom Bower London: William Collins, 2019 Boris Johnson: The Gambler Tom Bower London: W H Allen, 2020 John Newsinger Tom Bower’s ‘biography’ of Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most contemptible books that I have ever read. It comes across as if […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior to speaking with Boris Johnson. 4 Massively exaggerated in the sense that the UK is a party to […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of Books, 5 November 2020 at or . This concludes with a quote from The Daily Telegraph damning the government, written by Nick Timothy, former advisor to Theresa May MP and an indication of the state Johnson is now in. 4 One wonders why, rather than ‘supporting the government’, Labour leader Keir Starmer doesn’t say […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: The Lexit delusion Scott Newton The question of Britain’s relationship to the EU has been a real problem for the Labour Party since the 2016 referendum. Does its result offer the British Left a great opportunity to break free from the restrictions which come with membership of the organization and tie the nation to a […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] home. It will be interesting to see how they prevent this: claim that an inquiry into Kincora has already been held?34 Cite national security? The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been quoted as saying she would ‘have to consider the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act in some cases’.35 Colin Wallace – who would be […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] being relied upon to support this theory of a stand-in.2 The online hordes even thought they had identified the Clinton ‘clone’, in the form of professional lookalike Theresa Barnwell.3 Ms Barnwell formerly worked in banking before quitting to exploit her natural good fortune as a full-time job, which gives some idea of what a […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] more? Have we progressed that far from James Bond? Change is coming? But it could all change soon. During the Commons debate on the EAW, Home Secretary Theresa May made it clear that the criteria for Britain’s abiding by it had changed, so that much stricter criteria would be followed in the future. Formal charges […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Farage and then by pro-Brexit Tories. Creagh’s pre-2019 near-neighbour in Don Valley, Caroline Flint, had seen the writing on the wall, but her efforts to support a Theresa May ‘soft Brexit deal’ came too late to save her. She tells Payne: ‘We failed to understand people’s concerns about Europe and about immigration. They voiced their […]