Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies with […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] recording artist, best known for his catchphrase ‘Bless your pea-pickin’ heart!’, it’s hard to imagine why Hoover thought his good name might be mentioned at all, never mind besmirched. 9 The Collapse of Camelot Fifteen days after Hoover’s memo, President Kennedy was murdered and Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President. Robert Kennedy lingered […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] credentials. (p. 127) Trump, of course, did not attend the classes. There is much more of interest in Keddie’s book. Some minor points inevitably stick in the mind. For example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

Lobster Issue

[…] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]

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