The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Chile apart from most other Latin American states.19 The electoral verdict was favourable: having come to power in November 1970 with 37 per cent of the popular vote, Congressional elections in March 1973 saw Popular Unity increase its share to 44 per cent.20 At the same time as his Popular Unity government was driving […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]

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