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Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] was one of the considerations which led Murray to suggest, in September 1948, that part of the costs of the unit should be transferred to the secret vote. In addition, the move to the secret vote would enable a more flexible use of money, and For significant detail on the events surrounding the massacre, […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]

Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue

[…] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]

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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 Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] ‘Realising they couldn’t win without fraud, Dobson’s supporters – without his knowledge – encouraged MPs to call on party members to collect their ballot papers. Members could vote by phone or post. When MPs or their staff turned up on the doorstep helpfully offering to collect ballots, members innocently handed them over. The MP […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] also explain why David Cameron’s campaigning for ‘Remain’ was so low-key and understated, giving Johnson centre stage to perform his upper-crust electoral slapstick and discourage the ‘Leave’ vote. This idea, however, founders on the rock-solid fact that Messrs Cameron and Johnson couldn’t run a sausage-shop between them and, obviously, MI6 would never be so […]

View from

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 […]

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