[PDF file]: […] ‘forensic’ Leader of the Opposition with an arsenal of ammunition that Rumpole of the Bailey could only dream of after his third bottle at Pomeroys. Here’s the Labour leader’s starter for 10. ‘Has the Prime Minister, known for his voracious appetite for new experiences, yet dipped into the diaries of the former Member for […]
[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]
[PDF file]: […] its fine track record on other controversial subjects. This is not to be totally wondered at: when the Eye’s regular item on newly elected parliamentarians featured neophyte Labour MP 1 2 3 Luciana Berger, the ex-National Union of Students (NUS) officer who allegedly was romantically close to one of the Blair offspring as well […]
[PDF file]: […] money supply.4 Controlling the money supply can be done by restricting the amount of credit the banks can create. (This was the prescription given to the preceding Labour government by the IMF.) But Lawson, Thatcher and Howe were all linked to the City of London5 and did not believe in controlling banks. So they […]
[PDF file]: […] organised by communist conspirators’ (p. xvi). This might seem somewhat perverse as he also considers Britain at this time to have had a ‘socialist economy imposed by Labour governments since 1945’. (p. 15) But there you go. One of the great advantages of the classic Red Scare is that it does not have to […]
[…] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[…] by and excluded from politics, largely because their voices matter so little for the reasons above. Effectively, we are all living in Italy under Silvio Berlusconi.’ Wither Labour? I wasn’t going to bother adding my 5p’s worth to the discussion about the Labour Party’s future but then I saw the following quote from Ken […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[PDF file]: Confessions of a Labour loyalist Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire London: Quercus, £20.00, h/b In his extremely useful memoir of the Blair government, Adam Boulton notes that the unlikely figure of Dennis Skinner had been ‘recruited into Blair’s big tent’. He goes on to comment on how Skinner […]
[PDF file]: […] (Harris 2008) and, aside from being Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law, British Sky Broadcasting is one of Freud’s clients. (Sanghera 2001) In 1997 Freud Communications is listed as a Labour Party sponsor, donating a sum in excess of £5,000. (Aisbitt 1998) Freud had previously sold Freud Communications in 1994, when it was known as Matthew Freud […]
