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Lobster Issue

[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and the longest recession […]

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Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as ‘communism’s angel’ is amusing. But Mr du Berrier’s original report with the Rockefeller quotation in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Gordon Brown’s book, Beyond The Crash (London: Simon and Schuster, 2010), which I finally picked up off my shelves after ignoring it for years. I looked at Brown to see if he had answered the question: having bailedout the failed UK banks, adding £136 billion to the national debt in the process,9 why did […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Readers of Lobster may well encounter the rough ’conspiracy theorists’ abuse routinely dished out to anyone questioning an orthodox explanation of events. And, indeed, we do well not to seek over-simple, monochrome accounts of complex occurrences. This is a messy world where the level of institutional core competence, especially […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] firms that they are believed to have raped and pillaged would be unthinkable in the wake of the demise of former prime minister and City cheerleader, Gordon Brown. Especially given that Umunna, 35, purports to support small businesses and even sent a volley of tweets to support small businesses in the Streatham area of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

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