The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson was seen as the front runner, with Michael Gove as his ‘dream […]

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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* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] and social system, and dominated political institutions and public discourse to such an extent that democracy and freedom of speech were empty phrases. The public had a vote, but it did not matter what party they elected, as they were all controlled by ‘the unseen, non representative power Finance’. The final stage of liberalism’s […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] 98 The Pike Report, as a result of having been leaked prematurely by a friendly or hostile source to the Village Voice, was then suppressed by a vote of the House. 99 100 Servadio (see note 85) pp. 258-259, 261; Laurent (see note 98) pp. 244-257 30 anti-Allende operation, has blamed it on Richard […]

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[…] Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)’, August 2016, at or . 7 4 The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. It is no coincidence that the war against disinformation […]

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