Mexico missive

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] markedly similar situation in the UK, some of the indigenous population seemingly consider themselves above serving food in restaurants, mopping floors in hospitals and other general manual labour. Providing the 1 Locals who live next to his Aberdeen golf course raised Mexican flags next to their own St Andrew’s Crosses in a spirit of […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Right will suddenly discover that Trump’s excesses are, in all conscience, no longer tolerable. * John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on this occasion I could see how it might have been possible for some ignorant KGB officer to have confused DS Harley’s name with that of the Labour politician, although I thought it unlikely. In any event, the context was completely wrong, although I do admit that in Moscow I often sounded off about […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front. 19 6 kind of bagman for the CIA front, the International Rescue […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened through subscription to a ludicrously flawed ideology, the “revolving door’” […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the necessary pantomimes to rubberstamp decisions taken in Whitehall. On the other hand, this was 1984: the Thatcher regime was still being challenged by the left; the Labour Party had not then embraced the ‘Washington consensus’; the American banks had not completed their take-over of British economic thinking; the Cold War had been revived […]

The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] critical of senior political and legal figures in Scotland while paying tribute to those north and south of the border who offered strong practical support, including veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell and emeritus law professor Robert Black of Edinburgh University. The Lockerbie Bombing lacks an index but is well footnoted in support of a […]

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