The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s announcement in early August that he would be trying to return to the House of Commons, the answer lay in a s tory in the Daily Telegraph on 8 August headed ‘Brussels plots fresh City of London power grab: European Commission calls for greater powers for Brussels regulators in […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Democratic Unionist Party. This originated from the ‘Constitutional Research Council’ (CRC), which appeared to exist without a constitution and only one named individual in charge: a failed Tory candidate based in Scotland. The CRC were actually fined £6,0002 (which is less than 1.5% of the original sum) for not properly declaring this donation. The […]

Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] they wanted to help in marginal seats to oust Tories. Looking at the latest available list of donors for 2022, there are new names. For example ex- Tory donor Gareth Quarry who, according to the Guardian, said ‘The moral standards of the party have been completely trashed over many years.’ He added: ‘My wife […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] to Iranian influence.6 Disturbing parallels exist between the falsification of an Iranian assassination plot in the US (with Texas-based private intelligence ‘think tank’ Stratfor spinning the s tory as ‘credible intelligence’ in the media) and the entrapment of Bradley Manning that previously involved the private intelligence agency Project Vigilant, based in Florida.7 Founded by […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] ‘Thatcherism’ – championing big business, deregulating the financial sector, continuing privatisations and effectively handing the state over to business consultants. After 2008, Brown prepared the way for Tory Austerity and the creation of contemporary Food Bank Britain, afloat in a sea of raw sewage courtesy of the privatised water companies and their shareholders. For […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks s tory. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] is now hoping for a big majority through which to assert some control, not to pursue some hard Brexit, but to bury the referendum and return the Tory Party in government to close alignment with the City of London and big business. That centres upon something she has been trailing for some weeks, to […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. *new* Slating Slate ‘We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition’ ran the selfcongratula tory headline to a 22 October piece on Slate.com.2 This claim, though, was complete hogwash. All they had succeeded in doing was to exploit the poor methodology […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] e-mail from David Challice, party administrator at UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the s tory concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology which former PM Tony Blair has set great faith in solving no end of public sector challenges. With former Tory leader William Hague he launched a Tony Blair Institute of Global Change report ‘AI can shape the future of Britain’ in which it is hard to […]

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