Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] as Chief Secretary of the Treasury in 2010, left the ‘no money left’ note to his successor,1 0 words that have helped Chancellor George Osborne and the Conservative party to frame the assault on Labour’s economic record ever since. Draper’s alma mater, the University of Manchester, was the setting for another electoral defeat for […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Barber was Heath’s Chancellor the Exchequer. Of the Thatcher/Major period, 1979-97 he notes: ‘ . . . Britain’s manufacturers should have thrived during the 18 years of Conservative rule . . . yet the reverse was the case with the manufacturing industry suffering painful reductions in markets, capacity Dan Atkinson’s thoughts on what is […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] two: ‘The reporters David Graham and Bob Satchwell, and their crusading editor Barry Askew, examined Sir Douglas Osmond’s careful description of how Bill Harrison used the pliant Conservative leader of Lancashire County Council to bend Chief Constable Stanley Parr to his will.’ In fairness though, we are at least being given a clear indication […]