Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] burn the corpses of Jews killed by British bombing.(5) The opposition forms A number of groups determined to oppose Mosley: individual Conservatives,(6) Liberals,(7) and members of the Labour Party;(8) left-wing organisations, including the Communist Party (CP),(9) Common Wealth,(10) the Socialist Party Of Great Britain (SPGB),(11) and the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP);(12) civil rights organisations, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the May local council elections. All-postal may have increased turnout to […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] these have been (or are imagined to have been) under threat from the Left. Notable examples are the anti-Bolshevik panics of the 1920s, the attempted destabilisation of Labour governments in the 1960s and 1970s, and the surveillance of trade unionists (notably the striking miners) in the 1980s. This is an important historiographic breakthrough which […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] of The Independent. His wife, Jackie Ashley, a Guardian columnist, was previously a political journalist for the New Statesman and ITN News. Ashley, the daughter of former Labour MP Jack (now Lord) Ashley, grew up close to the powerful in the party and the careers of both have prospered mightily under New Labour. When […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
In 1998, I left the New Labour Party, more out of exhaustion than anything else. For two or three years, I had been at the forefront of the drive to modernise the Party through promoting internal party democracy, first as Deputy Chair and Founding Member of Labour Reform, and then as Coordinator of the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] there are always those who see an inevitability that may never have been there in the first place. So it is with the current problems of New Labour, the shift of economic power to the East, the global credit crisis and a food crisis that might turn tin-pot tribal insurgencies into the real thing […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] New Labourites. On the same day that H’Angus was elected in Hartlepool, Islington South – the constituency as near as anywhere to the spiritual home of New Labour – lost its last few Labour councillors. Sacked New Labour Cabinet minister Chris Smith now finds himself without a single Labour councillor in his constituency and […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] three BAP veterans, though less publicly so, was another early member of the BAP, Gloria Craig. Twenty-six years in the Ministry of Defence when Robertson became New Labour Defence Secretary in 1997, she is now its director of general security and safety. Her former MoD colleague, Jonathan Day, moved with Robertson to NATO HQ […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] to pollster and ‘strategist’ to the prime minister and if we are to believe him, senior US and Israeli politicians coincided with that of New Labour. His associate for much of that time, Deborah Mattinson, now heads Opinion Leader Research (OLR), part of the Chime Communications empire of Tim (since 1990, Lord) […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] old manor house in Lancashire reveal the true depths of corruption in English provincial life at the end of the twentieth century. Owen Oyston was the British Labour Party’s biggest private financial contributor in the Thatcher years. The millionaire owner of radio stations and glossy magazines had bailed out both the left-wing News on […]
