Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] I breathe’. What is needed to deal with the likes of Ashley are ‘new employment and trade union rights’. But he doesn’t explain why the Blair and Brown Labour governments did not introduce such legislation between 1997 and 2010. The book’s best chapter is on the 1984-85 miners’ strike, which he describes as ‘the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] years 8 See for example Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. 9 These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the English political stage seem able to contemplate changes to this. Certainly the efforts of Labour pre-2010 do not inspire confidence. Great store was set by Gordon Brown in 2009 in the establishment of the International Centre for Financial Regulation was announced. Designed to map out the future of responsible capitalism, it came with […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] and the young Miller became ‘a Horowitz acolyte’. Miller ‘was awed by Horowitz’s ideas’, and came to see ‘this country as a white-forged masterpiece, unfairly demonized by brown hordes’. (pp. 6, 7, 75, 77, 78) When he left school, Miller published a condemnation of it on Horowitz’s website as ‘Left-Wing’, as ‘an institution not […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the UK’s underlying issues. After the Iraq war and the banking crisis there was little shine left on the New Labour brand. The successors to Blair and Brown were left to pick up the English and Welsh pieces, Scotland by then having shed much of its 20th century loyalty to Labour. Corbyn revived the […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance […]

View from

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[…] flow of cheap consumer products opened up by the mass industrialisation of East Asia. But what, plausibly, has more impact on consumer prices: a letter from Gordon Brown to the governor of the Bank of England, or 300 million Chinese moving from the countryside to work in factories? If you can buy a 50-inch […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] extremely narrow loss to Kennedy on the Hughes loan story.28 The same scandal haunted Nixon again in his 1962 gubernatorial campaign in California.29 In fact, Gov. Edmund Brown, father of the current governor, reportedly ‘credited his election victory’ over Nixon that year to a magazine article about the Hughes loan.30 That should have been […]

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