South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The further adventures of Boris Johnson By the time you read this, the thrilling event that was ‘Boris on Brexit, Live’ 1 will have taken place. This Daily Telegraph event was due to happen on 26 March 2019. It is officially described thus: ‘Three days before […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 3 also reminds us, was the co-founder and vice-chairman of Cambridge Analytica. He has also claimed to have occasionally advised Boris Johnson on how to bring down Theresa May – and, presumably, on how to play the culture wars card. This is followed by another essential chapter, ‘Politics, Privatised’, where he looks at those billionaires […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the European Union.8 The author describes the many efforts to deal with this problem in the frenzied Commons atmosphere after the 2017 General Election. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May was seeking a solution to maintain her occupation of No 10 Downing Street and, like Corbyn, the leadership of or 3 or 4 or or 5 […]

Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda by Nicholas O’Shaughnessy

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: Mad men? Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Nicholas O’Shaughnessy Routledge, 2017, £29.99 (p/b) Colin Challen The title of this book is both arresting, yet banal. And very chilling. To deal with the last point first: the twenty first century’s highly developed concept and practice of marketing is that you identify your market, […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 2021 became a trustee of the same body’. (p. 193) Ware was joined by Sir Robbie Gibb, former BBC senior executive and adviser to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, in a consortium to save the Corbyn-critical Jewish Chronicle.22 The way Britain’s democratic deficit was exploited by the powerful supporters of Israel was shown very visibly […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

Lobster Issue

[…] 2021 became a trustee of the same body’. (p. 193) Ware was joined by Sir Robbie Gibb, former BBC senior executive and adviser to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, in a consortium to save the Corbyn-critical Jewish Chronicle.22 The way Britain’s democratic deficit was exploited by the powerful supporters of Israel was shown very visibly […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] 2021 became a trustee of the same body’. (p. 193) Ware was joined by Sir Robbie Gibb, former BBC senior executive and adviser to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, in a consortium to save the Corbyn-critical Jewish Chronicle.22 The way Britain’s democratic deficit was exploited by the powerful supporters of Israel was shown very visibly […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the process, as far as they are concerned, of turning the liberal Johnson into something else, a process that continued once he was appointed Foreign Secretary by Theresa May. ‘Frivolity and evasion of responsibility were never far away’, but more important while he was at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, his ‘easygoing attitude and liberal […]

Statement of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] these (child sex abuse) allegations and we’re going to leave no stone unturned to find out the truth about what happened.” On 17 July 2014, Home Secretary, Theresa May, told Parliament she wanted: “No stone unturned in getting to the truth of what happened and ensuring that we learn the necessary lessons to protect children. […]

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