Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] question. All they would have to do is shut up Tom Watson MP! Indeed, Murdoch has actually let it be known that he wanted to back Gordon Brown at the general election, but was persuaded by young James and Rebekah Brooks that Cameron was the coming man. This, one suspects, is a decision that […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old Labour. He says nationalising Lloyds/HBOS was ‘the last thing I wanted…. bringing with it all the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] of two world wars and the previous destruction of 400 years of slavery and colonialism, white folks were threatened by an explosion in the number of ‘ brown people’. Of course the book did not use such explicit language but anyone who read the list of countries could see that what was to be […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] more apt title for a book charting the history of this glittering nexus and its detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] I breathe’. What is needed to deal with the likes of Ashley are ‘new employment and trade union rights’. But he doesn’t explain why the Blair and Brown Labour governments did not introduce such legislation between 1997 and 2010. The book’s best chapter is on the 1984-85 miners’ strike, which he describes as ‘the […]