Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the African National Congress. In addition are scores of typed letters, reports and minutes of committee and cabinet meetings, for a example a detailed description of a Labour shadow cabinet meeting in 1963 concerning the issue of nuclear disarmament and 1 another on the Monckton Commission.’ (p. 28 emphasis added) Cabinet meetings? I spoke […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] difficult to square this concern for political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] or Majoritarian Pluralism.’1 4 I noticed a report on this on 30 March, the first official day of the general election campaign here, which was begun by Labour leader Ed Miliband making nice in the City of London, promising not to increase their taxes and, centrally, to keep UK corporation tax the lowest in […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] some of the history of Britain, France and the United States in relation to Islam, it reminds us why the struggle for principle and truth in the Labour movement is so important and why an understanding of the past is such a crucial component of committed comradeship. Not that Oborne has himself been part […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Tories in the Euro elections of 2019, they had no choice. The short-lived Change UK party was also set up as a private company, with an ex- Labour MP as its director. Social media is an area known to be notoriously difficult to regulate, even if – a big if – the tech-giants actually […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] our own; we do not see what we are not already predisposed to see.’ 36 The wrong kind of member The EHRC report on anti-semitism in the Labour Party found . . . not very much;37 what they did find hinged on debatable definitions of anti-semitism; and most of it was the responsibility of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] granted. Delays set in almost immediately. The tentative consultation signalled by the White Paper Your Right to Know didn’t begin until December 1997, some seven months after Labour had formed its first government since 1979.2 Three years later, the Lord Chancellor’s department proposed that the new legislation should be phased in with delays between […]