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... class forces that has left the country in the hands of the likes of Murdoch. Where did it all go wrong for Brown? After everything he had done, why did Murdoch decide to support David Cameron, someone he affected to despise as an over-privileged toff? Both Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch2 were urging Murdoch to back the Tories, something that he did with great reluctance. He recognised that Brown was a hard-nosed right- winger who could certainly be trusted to take whatever measures were necessary to protect the interests of the rich and super rich during the recession. Brown had proven himself more than amenable to furthering the interests of News International. What seems ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 09 Sep 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-murdoch.pdf
... election because of their association with the Conservative Party, are having a Zajac moment. Spooks, now and then C ryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their 10 <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/06/vince-cable- tory-budget-taxes-lie> 11 <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/07/nick-clegg-lib- dems-capital-gains-tax> 12 See for example <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833285/>. Boss ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 18 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... a long-standing BAP member. The current BAP treasurer is senior BBC producer Murphy Cobbing. The acting chair of the BBC Trust this year was Diane Coyle, an early recruit to the BAP at the same time as Naughtie and Peter (now Lord) Mandelson.8 The new BBC trust chair, Rona Fairhead, is a close Tory friend of Chancellor George Osborne. Lord Stevenson, a key figure in the BAP network and in the 2008 banking collapse, appointed Fairhead to her first senior position at Pearson Publishing.9 More American friends Fresh from controversy in the United States arrives David 7 Previously ignored by the mainstream press, regular news of dirty doings in Rotherham – ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 20 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-tittle-tattle.pdf
... remained higher ever since. (That strange noise you can hear is sniggering from the stockbroker belt round London.) Consequently the pound has been too high and a chorus of complaint has issued from British manufacturing as the overvalued pound began putting them out of business. This did not deter Brown. He wanted 'stability' and 'an end to Tory boom and bust' – phrases you must have heard a hundred times a year. But Brown defined 'stability' simply as low inflation – currency instability didn't matter and didn't get onto the agenda.4 And we had a re-run of 1980-2 . Through 1998 and into 1999, as the pound remained too high under ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 27 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-new-labour.pdf
... he could to avoid a UKIP victory, we may never know. But we do know that Coulson's earlier employer, News International (now News UK), made very little of his return to civvy street five months into his 18-month sentence for conspiracy to hack phones and of the Conservative defeat in what was previously a very safe Tory seat. The linked worlds of criminality, the media, the state and politics are the subject of the latest book by The Independent on Sunday deputy editor James Hanning, viewed through the eyes of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked extensively for Coulson among other News International senior executives. He was jailed for six months in 2007 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 19 Dec 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-news-machine.pdf
... Liverpool being run by Conservative councils. The key political figures in this arrangement, and the first group of ministers from whom HRH took advice, were Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister, and a former Liberal), Sir Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary and, by virtue of his being MP for Leamington Spa, the leading member of the Tory West Midlands group of MPs), RA Butler (Chancellor of the Exchequer, a keen supporter of Chamberlain and appeasement in the '30s) and Gwilym Lloyd- George (from 1954 Home Secretary, National Liberal MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne North, previously Liberal MP for Pembrokeshire and son of David Lloyd-George).2 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 07 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-apocryphilia.pdf
... /911truth/fakebinladen2.jpg> 32 <http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/23/ukip-peer-lord- stevens-deputy-chair-northern-shell> We then had an Express 'exclusive' in which the Freedom Association – whose membership consists entirely of far-right Tories (such as the loveable Christopher Chope) and UKIP figures – attacked the BBC for 'plotting a Labour victory' in order to protect its licence fee arrangements.33 Naturally, this piece was long on rhetoric and short on details of how the Corporation (which towers above Mr Desmond's own Channel 5) was going to execute its nefarious ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 27 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-holding-pattern.pdf
... torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 <http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2015/03/23/are-ngos- agents-of-subversion/> David Davis, the Conservative MP who lost to David Cameron in the contest for leader of the Tory Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, a free marketeer, a sometime member of a territorial SAS regiment and – this is what made me take notice – was a close friend of the late Tony Benn. Surprising? Yes, a bit: but both are ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... politics today A mong the Wikileaks cables released so far was the US Embassy in London's account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: 'Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. King also raised concerns that Osborne's dual roles as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer but also as the Party's general election coordinator could create potential problems in the approach on economic issues......King also expressed concern about the Tory party's lack of depth. Cameron 5 <www.thejc.com/news/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... UK had Kenneth Clarke and Peter Mandelson,1 0 two people for whom hubris is no stranger. Clarke congratulated himself for setting the UK on a growth path in the 1990s, and Mandelson was part of the New Labour cabal that invented the 'no more boom and bust' myth – a myth based on New Labour's commitment to stick with Tory spending plans for two years after the 1997 9 Disappointingly, Jeffers' book contains no references, but his reference here to an 'official report' quotes directly from the minutes of the meeting which are available at <www.bilderberg.org/1999mins. htm> 10 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-bilderberg-conspiracy.pdf