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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 […]

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 […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of just over 33% of votes cast, with ‘fringe’ parties and independents making headway. Get In tells how victory was achieved by maximising the efficiency of the vote, delivering it where it was needed rather than piling it up where it would make no difference. Social media played its part, micro-targeting individual voters rather […]

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Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that the Irish journalist, Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] 71 of the 104 years since 1918. Although it suffered shattering defeats at the polls in 1997 and 2001, it has made a triumphant comeback, increasing its vote in 2005 and at every subsequent General Election. It returned to office in 2010 as senior partner in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration and since 2015 has […]

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Lobster Issue

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 penultimate 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 […]

Mexico missive

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Government to ban Donald Trump from entering the country. During the debate of the motion, speakers cited Trump’s ‘repeated anti-Mexican comments.’6 No surprise there then. Sadly, the vote was largely symbolic and mainly an attempt to pressurise Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto 4 See the report by ‘the largest global employment and labor law […]

The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] of measures designed to clean up after the financial crisis, those US politicians who received greater contributions from the financial services industry were statistically more likely to vote for legislation that transferred wealth from taxpayers to bankers.’4 All together now: no shit, Sherlock! Bank of England official says: ‘Too big to fail’ produces ‘the […]

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