Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next s tory to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] we were setting ourselves an agenda that would preoccupy us for the foreseeable future, and (b) that this agenda was nothing less than recent British political his tory. This issue contains some of that post-11 research: updates, fragments, bits we left out of No. 11, plus a large chunk of material which I was […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] size and weight in the field of applied economics, have not helped. The combination of their lobbying activities with evident disagreements concerning the EU question in the Tory Party has prevented the government from coming up with an approach to the Brexit bill, the position of EU migrants in the UK and the Irish […]

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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] midday, the prime ministerial motorcade pulled into the car park, Range Rovers with blue sirens, and Johnson leapt out onto the campaign trail. With Jill Mortimer, the Tory candidate, he paced up the seafront in his trademark blue suit – sans coat, despite the weather. He was mobbed. Soon, the traffic piled up as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the executive summary.2 The italicised bits are my comments. 1 2 The report’s executive summary is at . ‘The IMF’s surveillance of the euro area financial regula tory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks in some countries.’ ‘In May 2010, […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Booth If Sir Keir Starmer ever chooses to confront Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Questions he could do worse than draw upon these diary entries of the Tory leader’s former deputy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Sir Alan Duncan’s near-daily record has presented the ‘forensic’ Leader of the Opposition with an arsenal […]

What if…

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] if….. In ‘The future’s not ours to see,’, his review of Atkinson and Elliot’s Going South, in Lobster 65,1 Simon Matthews offered a kind of alternative his tory of British history in the 1970s and 80s, in which Mrs Thatcher did not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let […]

Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – it is incontestable. But Bower identifies other issues: Blair’s lack of policy leadership, his absence of a historical perspective (especially in the context of Labour his tory) and his ‘dithering’. Let’s look at the historical perspective, since I think it contains one of the dead weights which crush Labour politicians and prevent them […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
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[PDF file]: […] claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster and 1979 is their Year Zero. There is a curious symmetry here: at the end of the […]

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