Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Chancellor’s Department was a barrister of at least seven years standing and called to the bar in 1960, Chakrabarti is by training and practice an economist. The new Ministry of Justice has no longer a rule about the training of its permanent secretary. The appointment of Mr Justice Holroyde was clearly a good one, […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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