Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the UK, freedom of movement – or, rather, the wish that there were less of that – was ultimately a key part of the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote to leave. The salience of the term ‘the Four Freedoms’ in the context of debates in recent years about the development of the EU and of […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of UKIP at that time, was not something Farage elaborated on.20 With Hayward’s backing, and that of a number of other donors, UKIP more than doubled their vote (6.5% to 15.5%) at the 2004 Euro Elections. After which Farage took over as leader, with their support rising to 4.4m (26.6%) by 2014. At which […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] been an MI6 officer.’ Said claims were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neoConservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer […]

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* 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 […]

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