The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] for the Facebook ‘platforms’ Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The Mail scents corruption . . . . But would the Mail have run the stories had May and Cameron been Brexiteers? The new MM Glancing at the coverage of the Meghan Markle story, I noticed that she was a ‘global ambassador’ for World Vision.16 I […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: The Cuntocracy William Clark W hy not call the present political system a ‘cuntocracy’? This is not, as it might seem, just a reaction to the advent of someone as painfully fraudulent as Nick Clegg. We need a new name for not just what the political class do to us because of greed and stupidity; […]

Tottenham burning: the minor practitioners of Soros’ “open society”

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Tottenham burning: the minor practitioners of Soros’ “open society” Dr T. P. Wilkinson Mr David Cameron, the Etonian prefect of Her Majesty’s Britannic government, was quoted responding to the unrest in London and other cities: ‘We needed a fightback and a fightback is under way. We will not put up with this in our […]

Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and columnist for many years was Julian Glover. The partner of the ubiquitous Murdoch columnist and former Thatcherite Matthew Parris (he worked for her in No 10 before becoming an MP), Glover has left liberal journalism to work as speechwriter for the Prime Minister David Cameron. James Cameron and John Arlott, turn in your graves……

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs) Simon Matthews Since late summer 2020, it has looked as if the impact of an incompetently managed mass pandemic and a ludicrously self-inflicted ‘hard’ Brexit (think here up to 85,000 dead, shortages of food and medicine, the Police losing control of the streets, a […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] and power of the rich and super rich. But, according to Bright, these governments actually resisted the plutocrats and it was not until the public schoolboys David Cameron and George Osborne took over that the country began ‘moving closer to plutocracy – a ruling class whose power is derived from its wealth’. (pp. 59-60, […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] William Hague and Michael Howard, both Eurosceptics; but the Party remained divided on the subject and lost votes to UKIP, especially in European and local elections. David Cameron took over the Party in 2005 determined to stop it ‘banging on about Europe’; but ongoing turmoil finally led him to call the 2016 referendum on […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] threat to national security requiring a response from the British government.1 The oil trade is seen not only as a condition of western This is from the Cameron government’s 2010 document on UK National Security Strategy. On p. 63 of his book Wearing provides further details: ‘Tier one’ risks ‘include direct terrorist attacks on […]

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