The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.’ ‘Report from Bonoko Institute for Electoral Democracy blames poor numeracy for delayed vote count in chaotic US presidential elections, notes that in the last two decades, the country’s math scores had stagnated in international assessments of national education systems.’ […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] issue of The Jewish Chronicle before the general election Peter Mandelson was given space by editor Stephen Pollard to write the leading comment article urging readers to vote Labour. ‘Our beliefs are your beliefs,’ wrote Mandelson: ‘The Labour Party is driven by many of the same values that have historically united and defined the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to New York, Shanghai or even Amsterdam.81 In the comments below that article someone wrote: Is that the same Sir Paul Marshall that donates to the Tories, Vote Leave, and GB News? It’s almost as if Brexit was a coup by moneyed charlatans to avoid tax, scrutiny, and regulations. The evidence suggests that Brexit […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] conference session ended. For as we know now the Kinnock team had already decided to capitulate and ‘Thatcherise’ the 13 Or England and Wales, if the Scots vote for independence in the September referendum. Its ‘mission statement’ includes this: ‘Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]

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