Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[PDF file]: […] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] was that the City asked for lighter and lighter supervision – and boy, did it get it. It was part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] – but it was in the blood. His view of most English politicians was highly negative – ‘squeamish’ and ‘old women’ are two characteristic descriptions – especially Labour ministers of course, who ‘with less of a feeling of the “White Man’s Burden” on their shoulders’ (that’s Edwards) were quite happy to begin the ‘scuttle’, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] evening, I told him that nationalization was looking increasingly likely…..like me could see the political watershed we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart espouses many soft-left (for a Conservative) […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of the path-breakers in helping create this new political world. Let us start with the difficulties he encountered doing his research. In early 1979, under the Callaghan Labour government, John Percival Morton, an elderly British counterinsurgency veteran, was sent to advise the Sri Lankan government on how to suppress Tamil rebels. He was ‘an […]