Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
Labour Party PLC David Osler Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, £15.99, 2002 Colin Challen MP Having written a his tory of Conservative Party funding, (1) I had been wondering when somebody would get round to doing a similar job on Labour. However, Labour Party plc is more than a simple history of party financing, it seeks […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] he may pick up as a junior Minister, could filter back to friends or contacts against whom there is a legitimate question mark.’ (Heath fired ‘Soviet stooge’ Tory’, Peter Day, The Observer 26 May 2002) In his comment on this Bethell resisted the temptation to point that it was Jellicoe who was the ‘risk’, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] printouts, police witness statements, defence affidavits and news cuttings were found tape recordings of conversations between a group of anti-Oyston, anti-Labour conspirators. The group included the former Tory government ministers, Lord Blaker and Sir Robert Atkins MEP, the property developer Bill Harrison and a private detective Christopher More, who has since been jailed for […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the fact that every scientific advance opens up new areas of uncertainty – and as a result, Britain’s fields are in danger of becoming an outdoor labora tory for the benefit of the biotech industry. As farmers go out of business – especially in dairying, a form of agriculture particularly well suited to our […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] and hundreds of thousands of words! It has been a staggering achievement by Wallace. It was Steve Dorril who was first interested in the Colin Wallace s tory, writing about in Lobster 1 in 1983 in the context of the Kincora Boys Home scandal. In 1985 Fred Holroyd was trying to get the media […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] capable of voting. The manager never saw the forms again but all five residents ended up as proxy voters. One of them gave his vote to a Tory County Councillor who lives just three doors away. The manager has now contacted the police. Granny farming Lobster readers will be aware that this grotesque trail […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] quit over Fayed job’, The Guardian 10 April 2000; Robert Shrimsley,’Tory MP in Fayed row is to quit’, Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000; Philip Johnston. ‘How a Tory came to change his mind on Fayed’, Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000 Charles Wardle, ‘The Real Mohamed’, The Guardian 4 April 2000. Henry Porter was given […]