Garrick 1-6 this one

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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 […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] would be that the “unknown subscriber” was the British tax-payer. We think Stewart-Smith was being funded in these ventures by MI5, probably using money from “the secret vote’.) The anti-Liberal pamphlet was distributed in seats where the Liberals were thought likely to do well.20 Among the themes being promoted by MI5 against the Labour […]

The rule of the tech lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] millions of followers’. Among his other exploits, he ‘repeatedly posted false information about (Kamala) Harris, whom he called a communist flying in millions of illegal migrants to vote’. He invested ‘more than $288 million’ in Trump’s campaign, looking for protection for himself and his business interests, and for more lucrative government contracts. According to […]

Newsinger The Rule of the Tech Lords

Lobster Issue

[…] millions of followers’. Among his other exploits, he ‘repeatedly posted false information about (Kamala) Harris, whom he called a communist flying in millions of illegal migrants to vote’. He invested ‘more than $288 million’ in Trump’s campaign, looking for protection for himself and his business interests, and for more lucrative government contracts. According to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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