The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Darwen, Lancashire: Red Sea Books, 2021, £16.99, h/b Nick Must At a macro level, this is a fairly simple story: Owen Oyston, a multi-millionaire supporter of the Labour Party,1 was subject to a politically motivated smear campaign that lasted nearly two decades. Andrew Rosthorn identifies the three main instigators and manipulators as being a […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the BlairBrown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American and […]

War on Terror Inc

Lobster Issue

[…] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the Blair-Brown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a (nominally) Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American […]

My Turn: Hillary Clinton targets the presidency by Doug Henwood

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes within Labour put up […]

WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMITISM: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] here by Winstanley was available at the time – notably on his website The Electronic Intifada.3 Most important of all there was For example John Booth’s ‘ Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism’ in 2017 at . 1 For another, more detailed review, see < . 2 1 3 the Al Jazeera documentaries which had exposed […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

Lobster Issue

[…] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. He […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them (Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there was no alternative other than […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Yet his acolytes still print his nonsensical meanderings.’ 15 And yes, he does stand that up, and in spades. * new * The anti-semitism furore And so Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn duly met with the reps of the major Jewish bodies in the UK and one of the aims of their campaign was […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them (Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there was no alternative other than […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] would be served by investigating operational activities which (it is fair to point out) allegedly occurred over ten years ago (for much of the time under a Labour Administration). Paragraph 13. I am sending copies of this minute to the Home Secretary, and the Northern Ireland Secretary, and to Sir Robin Butler, the Director […]

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