Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] from school days with the publisher’s son and heir, Si. The political power Cohn enjoyed from his association with the Newhouse media empire, with its 22 newspapers, cable TV companies, and prestige magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, was ‘of inestimable value to Roy’, according to his biographer. In return, Cohn […]
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Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] that goes on. I look at the mainstream parties for signs that they grasp any of this. Michael Meacher does, but his voice has no weight.10 Vince Cable does, but mostly stays schtum. Career first, eh Vince? (But he’s a politician: that’s a given.) Occasionally Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary Chukka Umanna shows signs of […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] struck me. A week or so after I wrote in the paragraph above, ‘But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes’, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable of Liberal Democrats did just that. Cable went so far as to actually spell out the Text at . The original text is no longer on […]