Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] . The police were a vital arm of the British state in the Eighties as bloody battles were fought against criminals, football hooligans and trade unionists. Mrs Thatcher needed the police to take on the miners. She was, and is, an icon to Tories like myself. It pains me to write this, but we […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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 […]