Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] scandal when Mark Lewis was acting for Gordon Taylor. ‘They came and listened to me and the reporter announced they would pay me £250,000 for my s tory. Of course nothing ever materialised. I wonder why!’ Most wanted The private detective was Christopher Guest More, 68, a millionaire jailed at Chester Crown Court for […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] drink with nigel. He had an interesting time with wiki leaks. . .’ Timed at 22:07:25: RE to AB ‘Looking forward to when they publish evidence of Tory hacking/infiltrating other parties . . . Only a matter of time. #deepstate’ March 11 Twitter group messages Timed at 08:07:37 AB to MH & RT ‘I’m […]

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[…] form of cash accounts which can be used to meet immediate requirements for liquidity. From the Bank’s perspective, they are the foundation of both of our statu tory policy objectives, namely monetary and financial stability. (Emphasis added.) If they’re being paid interest to hold the reserves, no wonder the banks or 3 or 4 […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] England’s 1996 Annual Report, which stated that it was committed to playing its part in European Monetary Union.4 On 19 October 1997 The Guardian noted: The last Tory Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, now makes no secret of the fact that he deeply regrets the day when, under pressure from rightwing Cabinet colleagues, he agreed to […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Tweeting: ‘Thank you to all those who supported me and believed in #ACleanStart. This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure […]

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[…] Brie ng; Heads to White House Just before 7:00 a.m., Vice President Dick Cheney sits in the library of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observa tory in Washington, DC, for his regular CIA brie ng. His solo brie ng is more detailed than the president’s because he asks for more material. According […]

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[…] antisemitism is rooted in conspiracy theories. Jewish people will always be scapegoats for some people, and the Rothschilds are some of the best-known Jews in modern his tory. In many ways, the story of Rothschild conspiracy theories is the story of modern antisemitism. That is how inseparable they are. (p. XIV) ‘Almost all conspiracy […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] provides a very thorough dissection and analysis of Britain’s long relationship with the Gulf states, one which goes back a long way. Well aware of this his tory, Wearing explains that British influence there went through three phases. The first started in the heyday of Empire, when Britain was the world’s superpower and influence […]

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[…] one Q and A. Peter: What surprised you most when you were researching the book? Simon: The degree and the shamelessness with which politicians and especially the Tory party were taking money from autocracies, or people with links to autocracies – and then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] an era of high-spending Keynesian interventionism. Sedgemore was one of Callaghan’s casualties, losing his seat in Luton West by 246 votes (despite increasing his own support) to Tory Monday Club member John Carlisle. Financial salvation came via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, […]

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