Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] on with the serious business of looting the global economy and crushing attempts to hold them to account. And this government? It has learned the lesson that Thatcher never grasped: if you want to turn this country into another Mexico, where the ruling elite wallows in unimaginable, state-facilitated wealth, while the rest can go […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a major event after all. He opines that Callaghan wouldn’t have won a majority and that a general election in late ’78, therefore, may have led to Thatcher being asked to form a government anyway, as Callaghan would have gone to the country and failed. This seems plain wrong. If the election had gone […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] shop. Heseltine served in the government of Edward Heath, which was partly responsible for the worst inflation this country has every experienced, and in that of Margaret Thatcher, which created the worst recession since the 1930s. I was curious to see how he dealt with these politically uncomfortable facts. Not well, is the answer. […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the approach he is taking: the devaluation crisis of 1967; the oil crisis and three day week of 1973; the 1976 IMF crisis; so-called sado-monetarism and the Thatcher recession 1979-82; the Lawson boom and bust and fallout with Thatcher 1983-89; Black Wednesday 1992; the financial crash 2007/9; Osbourne’s austerity 2010-16 and the Referendum and […]