Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] have a standard rate of income tax that is at or higher than 33%. However, the UK has not had this level of taxation since 1978. When Churchill started his second term (1951) the standard rate of income tax was 45%; when Macmillan became PM (1959) it was 42.5%; when Wilson started (1964) it […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] is to attach it to an existing one. As is abundantly clear from the wealth of famous quotations that are falsely attributed to him, Lincoln – like Churchill and Einstein – is an ideal vector.75 Whoever drew up the original Lincoln-Kennedy list had produced a propaganda masterpiece. The Lincoln-Kennedy samizdat complemented the action that […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] privatisation and City corruption leave us if Johnson’s leadership is the best the citizens of the UK can be offered? Johnson sees himself as a latter-day Winston Churchill and in portraying the Covid virus as the enemy plays up to the emotional attachment many Britons have for him. But the sober-minded electorate decided in […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Prawn Cocktail Party I rarely mentioned my Prawn Cocktail Party (PCP) in Lobster because I didn’t want to encourage people to buy it. PCP was mangled by the publisher. They scrambled the footnotes to two of the chapters and added errors, including different titles on front cover […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Webster used to write in the early twentieth century – conspiratorial literature that saw the Russian Revolution as part of a longer history of Jewish conspiracy. Winston Churchill was reportedly a fan of this stuff. Indeed, while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides are horrifying […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] . with the rise of Thatcher and the great show trials of the early nineties related to the clandestine Anglo-American arming of Iraq – Euromac, Ordtec, Matrix Churchill, Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir – the iron fist of political control has been worthy of anything that has come out of Eastern Europe.’
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