Climbing the Bookshelves

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[…] could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a pro-American, had been assassinated by the KGB in order to install a communist sympathiser as probable future prime minister. Anatoly […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Election. It returned to office in 2010 as senior partner in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration and since 2015 has governed alone. It won a thumping victory over Labour in 2019, a return of 365 MPs on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote providing it with a handsome Parliamentary majority of 80 seats over […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] year’s Bilderberg meeting.1 The two names that stood out for me were those of Tom Tugendhat and David Lammy – respectively leading MPs for the Conservatives and Labour. It is nice to see that a blessing from Bilderberg is still an advantage if you are desirous of your party’s leadership. I offer my sincerest […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] much of all this was known to Prince Bandar’s good friend in the Oval Office, and when. Smith’s myths The campaign to elect Owen Smith MP as Labour Party leader has been making claims that do not accord with verifiable facts, but the media are reporting them unquestioningly. Chief among these is the claim […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] – or perhaps because of – the Kagame regime’s wholly justified reputation for repression and murder. The grim reality is that both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition are very much in bed with the Kagame regime, and have been for many years now. Indeed the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in […]

Europe Isn’t Working by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Atkinson’s on his site, you will understand this. Here are two quotations. The first is from Elliott and Atkinson (p. 282) quoting the late Peter Shore, sometime Labour cabinet minister and one of the few Labour MPs to understand political economy. ‘Peter Shore asked how a country was to regain competitiveness once it had […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] This is not the first time Oborne has subjected the British political class to forensic scrutiny. As long ago as 1999 he published his Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class, followed up by The Rise of Political Lying in 2005, The Triumph of the Political Class in 2007 and […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MOD-NATO et al in the context of the history of previous ops against Labour leaders. *new* Copy America and you get . . . America And so to the Frank Hester story. Hester is the Conservative Party’s largest donor, having […]

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