Beware the proven lawyer!

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the supposed links between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.’ And there’s more, ‘Case Closed answers all lingering questions about the assassination.’ Harold Evans, aka Mr Tina Brown, was editor-in-chief of Random House at the time and, according to Posner, Evans himself actually wrote all this hyperbole. What a sad descent for someone who […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Richard V Allen Rt Hon Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP Baroness Cox Dr Iain Elliot Professor Antonio Martino Advisory Council Dr Robert Conquest Rt Hon Lord George- Brown Brian Key Leopold Labedz Melvin J Lasky Rt Hon Reginald Prentice JP MP Professor Pedro Schwartz Frank Shakespeare Dr Philip Towle Dr G R Urban Director […]

The Party of Business and the Business of Parties

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] that this has more to do with reducing current public debt, perhaps with an eye on Euro membership, than it has with a few sleazy donations. Gordon Brown would argue that it means getting an immediate surge in public investment without a return to ‘boom and bust’. But specific one-off cases, like the Ecclestone […]

An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Prince of Darkness. American imperialism is the agency of God’s salvation. George W. Bush is the Angel of the Lord. And so on. It sounds crazy. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) could never have got away with it. Northcott nonetheless believes that it is a ‘powerful cultural and religious force in modern America’. […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] between Milgram and the CIA: tortured reasoning in a question of torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 199-203; Richard E. Brown, ‘Alfred McCoy, Hebb, the CIA and torture’, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), Spring 2007, pp. 205-213. See also Blass’s website: Jeffrey M. […]

Updates

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest we forget, Amicus had donated £2m to Labour’s 2001 election fund. (3) Meanwhile, […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief architects of the economic mess we are in. This chapter shows how. Robin Ramsay Chapter 8 […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] MP’s: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what passed between […]

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