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 […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of the two versions of the complete document I found online this version is the more clearly laid out.) January 2011 Dear Reader: Would it affect your vote if you learned that the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper was a CSIS operative in the late 1980s and early 1990s? This interesting-but-not-scandalous information (as once described […]

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 […]

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