Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] books, as its participants cash in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of history into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-alltimes tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime TV-oriented (and […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] the LSE (1964-1967) during which, he asserts, he was a revolutionary socialist himself. Apparently, this makes him especially qualified to ruminate on the background of the current Labour Party leader. Even if this is so, early on it becomes clear that this book doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know (or couldn’t […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I first came across it in The Open Conspirator, a book about preWW2 Labour Party activist and pacifist Clifford Allen.11 But searching for that I noticed that H. G. Wells had written something called The Open Conspiracy12 and Garrick Alder […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] the Second World War the state controlled everything: capital movements, production and trade. Of necessity a version of the producers’ alliance sought by some sections of pre-war labour, capital and state, was formed. Cooperation rather than conflict was the model chosen for total war, a lesson not lost on the wartime generation of politicians […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences: The Conservatives are the party for the City. We […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] probably longer than usually accorded to a backbench MP. The accounts were clear that he was independently minded and latterly something of a rogue elephant on the Labour benches. Perhaps they could have paused to reflect on how much he had achieved by the time he was thirty-five: brought up by a single parent […]