Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] government of Panama at Fort Clayton.33 Its pro-U.S. leaders – President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Ricardo Arias Calderón and Guillermo Ford34 – had won a popular vote the previous May as heads of the Democratic Opposition Civic Alliance, which enjoyed strong backing from Panama’s financial sector. However, Noriega’s electoral commission annulled their victory, […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] issue of The Jewish Chronicle before the general election Peter Mandelson was given space by editor Stephen Pollard to write the leading comment article urging readers to vote Labour. ‘Our beliefs are your beliefs,’ wrote Mandelson: ‘The Labour Party is driven by many of the same values that have historically united and defined the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to New York, Shanghai or even Amsterdam.81 In the comments below that article someone wrote: Is that the same Sir Paul Marshall that donates to the Tories, Vote Leave, and GB News? It’s almost as if Brexit was a coup by moneyed charlatans to avoid tax, scrutiny, and regulations. The evidence suggests that Brexit […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] referendum might have been influenced by hostile actors, which fed into an unwillingness to look at it too closely.6 Did the Russian try to influence the Brexit vote? Yes, they did. But the extant evidence shows that the Russians operations were relatively minor and seem unlikely to me to have had a significant effect.7 […]

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