South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the floor lies with the EU. Which creates a curious dilemma for me. I think the EU is absurd, a menace in many ways, and I would vote for UK withdrawal – were it not for the fact that the threat posed by the banksters is greater than that posed by the Eurocrats’ delusory […]

Blowback: a Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge by Miles Taylor

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to defeat this obviously totally unfit crook and conman. Once Trump had been successfully elected (although it is always important to remember that Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes), there were many in the party leadership and apparatus who hoped that he could be persuaded to govern as a conventional […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] assassinated! The rigged Presidential election in 2009, which saw Karzai returned after ‘his supporters had committed fraud on an epic scale by stuffing ballot boxes and fixing vote totals’, was a crucial moment. According to the UN, a million votes, one in four of those cast, were fraudulent, keeping him in office. (p. 170) […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

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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* 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 […]

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