Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
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[PDF file]: […] tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1) To understand where we are now, we have to go back to the 1970s. For the 1970s led to Mrs. Thatcher, which led to the progressive collapse of Labour as a radical, reforming party.(2) Mrs. Thatcher claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] funding by the Road Haulage Association, then distantly threatened with nationalisation, is discussed. Best account is Hinton’s. Dorothy Crisp is the historical figure who most resembles Margaret Thatcher. 47 é é é 12 an an additional anticipated income of £260,000.’48 The pre-war tradition, discussed below, of newspapers reprinting anti-left briefings from Conservative Party groups […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
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[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]

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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s greatness and Heath is the ideal foil for this: the man the miners defeated contrasted with the woman who defeated the miners. It was Thatcher, after all, who began the neo-liberal reshaping of Britain. This was a wholly good thing because. as Bower argues, privatisation was to show that ‘public-owned industries […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the Tamil Coordinating Committee operating from London at the time, Thatcher was to tell the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, ‘We keep a close eye on and shall continue to do so.’3 0 The Sri Lankan government […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] began to rise sharply, the Treasury tried to persuade the Labour government to scrap exchange controls. This Labour refused to do; but they were abolished by the Thatcher government in 1980. However, despite a rush of capital out of the UK, the value of the pound continued to rise, making British exports uncompetitive and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like Mrs Thatcher, acknowledging error and changing minds is a peculiar problem. A leader attracts followers, or builds a coalition of support, based on two things: policies and prospects […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] when Ken said it. Ken may have come from the world of the Trot groupescules,17 but he understood British political economy.18 For a political leader, like Mrs Thatcher, acknowledging error and changing minds is a peculiar problem. A leader attracts followers, or builds a coalition of support, based on two things: policies and prospects […]

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