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 […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] turned thirty and was now eligible for gender reassignment surgery . . . I was revelling in my new life in the North of England when Margaret Thatcher cracked down on the Mossad spies working in Britain. I had my first brush with this Thatcher crackdown at Grappenhall when I was on my way […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] turned thirty and was now eligible for gender reassignment surgery . . . I was revelling in my new life in the North of England when Margaret Thatcher cracked down on the Mossad spies working in Britain. I had my first brush with this Thatcher crackdown at Grappenhall when I was on my way […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] phrase ‘the change of government’: ‘The thing is there were some senior people in the forces at the time who were very right-wing and they thought that Thatcher coming in gave them carte blanche to get up to all sorts of things. We heard whispers that some of these people were trying to destabilise […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] academic learning and wealth creation’, so much so that ‘the country appears to be betraying its commitment – however distant – to meritocracy’. He actually argues that Thatcher, Major and Blair tried to squeeze the ‘rejuvenated aristocracy’ out of politics – which rather misses the point about their governments. Each of them which presided […]

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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

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