The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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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 […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

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[PDF file]: […] in 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately […]

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[…] which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] quickly, it appears to be the massed ranks of Parliament rallying behind the new Prime Minister. A closer inspection shows that Churchill’s main supporters are from the Labour Party, with all the prominent Conservatives being in the second or third rows, if they are identifiable at all. The UK opposition Some of the surgery […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to ensure effective Parliamentary democratic scrutiny of the intelligence and security services.’ It was signed by just 9 of the House of Commons current 650 members, eight Labour MPs and one Liberal-Democrat.26 25 26 12 security. An informed and responsible debate is needed.’ ‘……should be able to undertake its own investigations as the members […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had proved so destructive, committed itself to sustaining through its own spending an overall level of economic activity (‘aggregate demand’) capable of generating the full employment of labour and capital. This was supplemented by support for welfare states financed by progressive taxation and the proceeds of economic growth. Workers enjoyed job security and good […]

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