The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly disingenuous. No-one denies that millions of Labour voters declined to vote for Jeremy and/or Labour. What is at issue is why this happened. Among the contributing factors was the extraordinary Jeremy-is-anti-semitic campaign which was run through the […]

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[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]

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[…] riot. Eventually, the Supreme Court effectively determined the result of the election by ruling in the Republican candidate’s favour, and halting the ongoing attempts to recount the vote. Twenty-one years later, it nearly happened all over again. Except, in most ways, it was much worse. The Republican Party’s agitations in Florida in 2000 had […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of the single market — which is not a trading relationship, but a legal enforcement of big business’s rights — are maintained, possibly renewed every year by vote of Parliament.’ 6 Ovenden’s analysis is the more plausible to me and may explain why ‘fund manager’ Jeremy Hosking is preparing to spend getting on for […]

Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of the dominance of the humanities. 14 or 15 or or or 16 despairs and concludes, as he predicted in 2015, that ‘If . . . the vote is to exit, it will be no good saying afterwards that “we didn’t understand what we were voting for”, the repeated complaint made by Eurosceptics about […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] for the resolution but without enthusiasm, without optimism, without joy, and without the feeling that we were contributing to the adoption of a constructive measure.’ ‘After the Vote,’ Time, (29 March, 1954), p. 32. 26 Winter 2010 A rbenz turned to the welcoming ears of the Soviets, who obliged by sending him arms through […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] that fits S peaking at an event just before International Women’s Day, Women and Equalities Minister Nicky Morgan MP declared that ‘women fought and died for the vote’. Ms Morgan was talking out of her arse and doing it so blatantly that it’s hard to believe it was accidental. The Suffragettes – she can […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] possible reason would there be for not using the existing constituency-based electoral organisation? I can think of only one, the one the author suggests: to rig the vote, if necessary. He notes that Cord Meyer was London CIA station chief at this point. Did Meyer bring ballot-rigging expertise from the CIA? This is not […]

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