Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] voce approval of two merger agreements. The deal was a difficult one: PowerGen wanted to take over of East Midlands, a vertical combination already rejected by the Conservative Government. In return, according to their lobbyist, PowerGen offered to commit to coal contracts to save coal-mining jobs. On June 25, 1998 when DTI Minister Margaret […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] primacy. Taking the post-modern route away from the analysis of the real spared the sensitive cultural analyst from those career-threatening conflicts with the line coming from the Conservative governments of the day. If the left was out, post-moderism provided an alternative to embracing the new right, a sideways step. After the authors’ long introductory […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] interest in whether fortunes are inherited or acquired in one generation, and his interest in ‘politics’ concerns only which parties the rich support. His approach is unquestioningly conservative. This edition is an update of the author’s now classic book from 1981 on the history of the super-rich in Britain. It coincided with the rise […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] minister Ole Bjorn Kraft (publisher of Denmark’s top daily newspaper); and from England came Denis Healey and Hugh Gaitskell from the Labour Party, Robert Boothby from the Conservative Party, Sir Oliver Franks from the British state, and Sir Colin Gubbins, who had headed the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war. On the American […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] the ERM fiasco of 1992, is wary of the single currency, fearing another ERM-style debacle. (2) ‘New Labour’ is stuck in precisely the same way that the Conservative Party was stuck and it is entirely unclear whether or not a pro-single currency propaganda campaign like those described in Andy Mullen’s piece above would work […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] Scargill made no bones about it, seeking funding from the Soviet bloc and Colonel Gaddafi. (It was as if he was following a script written by the Conservative Central Office and MI5.) But Rimington’s statement does not quite support Thatcher’s ‘the enemy within’ theory about the CPGB. I assume that MI5 knew that her […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] no Soviet grand plan for the invasion of Britain and world domination; and nothing in Mitrokhin’s packet of revelations proves that there was. Even if the ultra- conservative Soviet bureaucracy had wanted to conquer the world, the creaking and sclerotic Soviet system was hardly up to it. The Cold War was never as simple […]