In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] about his praetorian guards and spear carriers, the former Director of Public Prosecutions could then move on the main event – Duncan’s description of his former FCO boss, the self-styled World King himself. In 2016 Duncan attends Chatham House for the presentation of a Royal Institute of International Affairs prize to US Secretary of […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his former boss, McDonnell, was ‘Labour’s lost leader’. He provides no index and leaves the hardback reader to input on screen footnotes for which he only offers URL links. […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

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[…] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.68 IRD Rory Cormac is […]

View from the bridge

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[…] more than £850,000 since the election – 49 Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 50 18 including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.51 IRD Rory Cormac is […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.40 Dallas again Meanwhile, back […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.30 Dallas again Meanwhile, back […]

View from the bridge

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.30 Dallas again Meanwhile, back […]

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