[PDF file]: […] Bakiyev family in Kyrgyzstan, Blackpool FC won the most lucrative match in world football, beating Cardiff 3-2 in the Football League Championship play-off Final at the brand new Wembley stadium, thus winning a place in the English Premier League.10 9 10 The richest match in world football is universally accepted to be the English […]
[PDF file]: […] in the politics of Labour’s party management Lewis Minkin Manchester University Press, 2014, 798 pp. Colin Challen Published seven years ago, Minkin’s book has taken on a new relevance and I have been prompted to review it by two events. The first was the death of its author earlier this year; the second has […]
[PDF file]: […] football club and its parent company. In February 2019, the receiver moved into the Bloomfield Road offices of Blackpool FC, dismissed the Oyston directors and installed a new management team to run the club. The receiver sold Oyston’s shares in Blackpool to Simon Sadler, then aged 49, a hedge fund manager at Segantii Capital […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply […]
[PDF file]: […] to the latter half of the 20th Century is all part of the narrative sweep and one thing Mr Talbot does very neatly is to ‘frame’ a new narrative around the bizarre witch-hunts of the McCarthyite 1950s. For Mr Talbot, the entire episode is a show-trial (or, rather, a series of show-trials,), in which […]
[PDF file]: […] Otto Warmbier. He was the young American who was detained by the NK state on 2 January 2016. It was alleged that, in the early hours of New Years Day, the then 21 year old Otto Warmbier had stolen a state propaganda poster1 from a ‘staff only’ area of the hotel (the Yanggakdo Hotel, […]
[PDF file]: […] had established extensive connections with the ruling families and governments of the major Middle Eastern and African states. This proved to be a fertile ground for the new venture. In a brief history of Watchguard, within his wider 1 The name change was prompted by the overwhelming critical mass of negative publicity regarding incidents […]
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[PDF file]: […] the Blairites! How on earth can we account for this fiercely working-class socialist, the veteran of numerous strikes and campaigns, giving his support to Blair and his New Labour government? Indeed, it is all the more surprising when one considers that part of the New Labour project was precisely to ensure that people like […]
[PDF file]: […] embrace of a form of European social democracy by Harold Macmillan and his successors, notably Harold Wilson, from 1960 onwards. The second is the plotting of a new course from 1979 onwards, away from economic planning, intervention and – critically – support for full employment, and towards wholesale, market-based solutions for the shortcomings of […]
