South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure Messrs. Tugendhat and Ellwood could be viewed as something of a dream ticket […]

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’ […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] referendum might have been influenced by hostile actors, which fed into an unwillingness to look at it too closely.6 Did the Russian try to influence the Brexit vote? Yes, they did. But the extant evidence shows that the Russians operations were relatively minor and seem unlikely to me to have had a significant effect.7 […]

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 […]

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