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 […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]

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 […]

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