Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] government to direct the economy; and no reacquisition of the privatised state assets, the roughly £100 billion of taxationcreated assets flogged-off for around £50 billion during the Thatcher years. All talk of justice, fairness and redistribution had been stripped from the vocabulary. They had learned the central mantra of neo-liberalism: private good, public bad. […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] actual evidence of its existence. The DVD did not originate in Shrimpton’s mind. As far as I can tell, it originated in the mind of self-styled former Thatcher advisor, the late Christopher Story, who also (along with one time Joint Intelligence Committee chairman Percy Cradock) believed that the fall of Communism was a hoax […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] immense hardship, the daily abuse of the press and a degree of police repression not seen since the 1930s. As he points out, the union argued that Thatcher ‘had 70 pits on a secret hit list’ and planned the effective destruction of the coal industry, something that was vehemently and categorically denied at the […]