Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] He appeared to be advocating a form of UDI or ‘Ulster independence’. Loyalist paramilitaries, who were in the ascendant post Sunningdale, approved of Craig’s hard-line stance. British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on the other hand, was very upset at the defeat of power-sharing. He felt, not without reason, that the security services were […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] was the man who had famously been exposed as not having any idea of the level of JobSeekers Allowance at the hustings during the campaign for the Labour Party leadership! And once he had lost that election decided to devote himself to making money, lots of money. In 2011-2012, he earned a modest £446,000 […]
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[PDF file]: […] to over 12 per cent of the workforce by 1986, along with social disorder and bitter class conflict, were still traumatic). Thatcherite reforms sought to weaken organised labour but empower the City through the famous ‘Big Bang’ of 1986, which led to the internationalisation the financial sector – in so doing enabling it to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] supposedly happened in the 70s and 80s, quoting Callaghan as saying in his memoirs that he lost in 1979 because ‘the tide of history had turned against Labour’. This is self-serving. Callaghan lost because he didn’t go to the polls in the autumn of 1978, when strongly advised to do so. Had he done […]
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[PDF file]: […] happen? Some had few doubts: ‘he Prime Minister felt resentment towards his predecessor, Harold Wilson. Soviet espionage was, in Heath’s view, only one of many issues the Labour government had handled badly between 1964 and 1970. Wilson and his colleagues, though well aware of the problem caused by increasing numbers of Soviet spies, had […]
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[PDF file]: […] nothing to see here!’ Also available from the FCO Historians is Origins and Establishment of the Foreign Office Information Research Department, 1946-48. This reveals that, as the Labour government of Clement Attlee was in power at the time: ‘The need to keep the left wing of the Party on side became a factor in […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] are known to have enjoyed the largesse of the State Department’s IVLP: Patrick Harvie (Green), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Ross Thomson (Con), Patrick Grady (SNP), Kezia Dugdale ( Labour), Jenny Gilruth (SNP) and Angela Crawley (SNP). Of the seven, only Yousaf is or 2 ‘All the jolly boys and girls’ at 3 or 4 2 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] explaining. This is not a task Calvert and Arbuthnot seriously attempt but is one worth pondering as ever more tales of Tory crony corruption emerge and Starmer’s Labour falls further behind in the polls. I finished their book just as Johnson’s PR, Allegra Stratton, declared that he acted with ‘honesty and integrity’ as London […]
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[PDF file]: […] for twelve hours a day. As we now know, that allowed Epstein to continue his assaults on young girls. Acosta went on to be Trump’s Secretary of Labour. Kendzior is incredulous that the allegation that Trump raped a thirteen year old girl who had been ‘forced to work’ for Epstein in 1994 was pretty […]
