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Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] help fix it Alastair Campbell London: Hutchinson Heinemann, £22.00 John Booth Here we have two approaches to politics and public life which are also partly the s tory of two Neils. Neil Findlay is a former Labour member of the Scottish Parliament and a long-time grass-roots activist. Neil Kinnock was the Labour leader who […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] This didn’t seem to me a winning national election strategy, so I took myself off to the Midlands for a few days where on 8 June a Tory marginal was duly won by Labour. Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel as I later discovered, benefitted from a 9.4 per cent swing to […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] This didn’t seem to me a winning national election strategy, so I took myself off to the Midlands for a few days where on 8 June a Tory marginal was duly won by Labour. Ryan, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel as I later discovered, benefitted from a 9.4 per cent swing to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the s tory about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside S tory of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

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Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] (London: Verso, 2010); Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 and Scott Newton The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic His tory (London: Routledge, 2017); Barnett’s introduction to the 2021 edition of Nairn’s Break-Up of Britain and P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism 1688-2015, 3rd […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] just write stupid shit. Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘JFK: a death that sparked a thousand conspiracies’1 is a classic example. Sandbrook is a popular writer of recent British his tory but he knows nothing at all about the Kennedy assassination. And there’s the point: he doesn’t think he needs to know anything before rehashing the lone […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] with ‘***’. Sneaky, very sneaky. I have already mentioned the factual errors within the report but I should also point out that it appears to be contradic tory. Paragraph 2 has this on the Russian state: ‘By contrast, it has a small population compared with the West; a lack of both reliable partners and […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]