Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] career, to Roy (now Lord) Hattersley. Lord Cashpoint’s memory A Foreign Office colleague of McShane and Foulkes under Blair was Michael Levy whose memoirs attacking Blair, Gordon Brown and the state of the Labour Party were serialised in The Mail on Sunday just before the May municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] the Democrats and – by implication – how British politicians would compete for office in the future. Weston’s book, we were told, was being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just […]

Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] the Mafia notoriously say, ‘things change’ but it looked, by May Day, that deadlines were being set. Blair has set a framework for terrorism and security that Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of […]

Socialist Renewal publications

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] have been fun doing it. He could just have published the US Space Command brochure. The Captive Party: How Labour was taken over by Capital Michael Barratt Brown Socialist Renewal, new series, no. 2, £5.00 Very useful and clearly written, this is a 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part […]

The British American Project for the Successor Generation

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] former Conservative Central Office researcher who was then editorial page editor of the Independent newspaper was one of two British journalists present, the other being Yasmin Alibhai Brown, then an editor of the New Statesman and now a freelance writer whose work appears widely. The purpose of the 1988 gathering – as of all […]

Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] limited success – no thanks to the rather naive approach to business of the Leader’s immediate circle. Geoff Mulgan was then (1992) a research assistant to Gordon Brown and LFIG was close to the John Smith/Gordon Brown Scots network, though Blair was very much in the frame even at that time as a rising […]

Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the Skull and Bones was Prescott Bush Snr., father of the first President Bush. A scion of New York’s financial establishment, Prescott Bush was a director of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, the oldest private bank in the United States. He was also a director of the Union Banking Corporation, a bank set up […]

Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

BROWN, Walt. Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission. Wilmington (Delaware): elmax, 1995. 303 pps. An essential work of navigation for anyone sailing the seas of the Report and the Hearings and Exhibits. Supplements rather than replaces the search facilities on the Warren Commission CD-ROMs. COLLOM, Mark, and SAMPLE, Glen. The Men on […]

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] co-chairing a PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support […]

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