Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] boom Britain could do no wrong. Its flexible economy flourished, easily outpacing the performance of our European neighbours. Never before had the country been so rich. New Labour could afford to pour record investment into public services, all paid for by taxes from world leading financial services. Waiting lists for hospitals continued to drop. […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] outraged. Their silence has even extended to Trump’s exonerating Kim from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and New […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] to interfere.’ Thus the opening paragraph by Kim Sengupta in his review of the Mark Curtis book, Secret Affairs.26 I wrote about political contamination in ‘Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites’ in Lobster 33. 25 or 26 10 Community? Whatever that means! Can you think of anything more vague or more useless? […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] to this reviewer, is an important addition to the Establishment of the 1950s described by Fairlie, Thomas et al. To write of Neil (now Lord) Kinnock and Labour without mentioning Robert Maxwell and of New Labour without reference to Michael (now Lord) Levy and Jon (now Lord) Mendelsohn is a serious omission. Some readers […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] it should be no surprise that the run-up to crisis was hallmarked by imaginative ways of manufacturing this commodity (gambling), with a view to boosting returns to labour and capital. Risk illusion is no accident; it is there by design. It is in bank managers’ interest to make mirages seem like miracles.’ Even more […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess’. Without wanting to labour the point: ‘Rather, we have what might be called a government of all the talentless, incapable of competence in any domain and almost ludicrously inadequate to […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrant-friendly by downscaled 10 and outsourced whites.’ Substitute New Labour for Democrats . . . Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] controls over the currency and over capital movements. China does not possess the conviction that private economic activity trumps public enterprise, that government should be small, organised labour suppressed, trade free and international capital flows unhindered. Its assistance for developing nations is not accompanied by requirements that states cut spending, privatise public industries and […]
