A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we workers lived in a reality of which she appeared to have no understanding.’ Enoch Powell and Michael Foot ‘could hold the Commons spellbound with their ora tory, but if you read the speeches in Hansard the next day, Powell’s was the one with more substance’. (Having once covered a Foot speech I returned […]

The End of Progress: How modern economics has failed us by Graeme Maxton

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] meeting of the International Monetary Fund. A safe distance from home, he made a speech that rather let the cat out of the bag in terms of Tory labourmarket policy. Many of the jobs of tomorrow, Lawson said, would not be ‘high tech’. They may not even be ‘low tech’. Instead, they would be […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and a beard and this lead to them being referred to as “hairies”. Over time, subjects of interest became known as “wearies”. This was a slightly deroga tory colloquial term for individuals that were viewed as hard work and tiresome. These titles which now seem archaic and inappropriate remained in use by the unit […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] movement. Jonathan Dimbleby is the present head of the Soil Association and he made his feelings about Jenks very clear in his foreword to Philip Conford’s his tory of the organic movement,3 where he described the beliefs that Jenks had as ‘foolish and foetid’ and Jenks himself as one of a number of ‘fatuous […]

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