Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

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[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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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent […]

Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history by Scott Newton

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Dallas again We all have blind spots. Like many of the Kennedy assassination researchers, the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever Rick Wilson New York: Simon and Schuster/Free Press, 2018 Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic David Frum New York: HarperCollins, 2018 The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] across to Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester. Two extracts will give you some flavour of his findings. Here’s Payne with David (now Lord) Blunkett, the former New Labour Home Secretary: ‘Blunkett agreed with my emerging conclusion that Labour’s collapse in the red wall was in part due to structural changes, not purely the […]

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