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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,33 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.34 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has it that the shooting of the Pope was probably the work of the KGB. Probably? Moore’s caution is striking. Hadn’t the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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[PDF file]: […] spend sufficient money maintaining it.’ (p. 215) Grenfell Tower was completed in 1974 and built to the mandatory ParkerMorris standards for space, heating and amenity which Margaret Thatcher effectively ended in 1980. The wealthy part of reportedly the most unequal borough in the country – home at one time to Cameron’s ‘Notting Hill set’ […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] down much better informed and, at the same time, seriously concerned that so much of what Miller reveals was new to him. It was during the Reagan- Thatcher years that the British so-called ‘private military companies’ first came into their own. Mercenaries had operated before then but, during that period, a permanent network of […]

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[…] political parties will publicly admit this yet but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979 with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] years. See ‘Amway Corp. sales fell 8 percent to $10.8 billion in 2014’ at or or or . See ‘David Attenborough and Paul McCartney rejected by Denis Thatcher for Downing Street party’ by Sam Russell for The Independent, 21 July 2018 at or . 8 See the correspondence and list at or . Sykes, […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] British conservative movement. In some ways Thatcher’s children really are Rand’s offspring. It was Rand who first said ‘There is no such thing as society’,20 echoed by Thatcher in 1987.21 Whether or not Thatcher had read Rand is, as far as I know, still unclear. Nevertheless Mrs Thatcher wanted to take Britain back to […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] again and to see pictures of them doing their stuff all those years ago. On page 534 – yes, it’s that long – Robert Elms proclaims: ‘ Thatcher might have won elections, but culturally we won’; and ‘Look at Britain now: it’s a society where racism is absolutely frowned on; where gay marriage is […]

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