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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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