South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] following: ‘etting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum’ – I presume from this that he has no confidence that a ‘leave’ campaign would win a second vote – and, ‘upport me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works’ (emphasis added) – look out, folks . . . he’s […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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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