Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] mass destruction’ lies as examples of Leftist dishonesty. The vector for this contamination was apparently Dominic Cummings, a man much influenced by the example of the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

Lobster Issue

[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]

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