Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] MP for South West Norfolk London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Robin Ramsay This is what we might call the manifesto of the group of free marketeers1 within the Conservative Party which briefly had nominal control of British economic policy this year.2 Lobster’s site creator and manager, Ian Tresman, sent me this and suggested I review […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] a number of years now. His ‘dead cat’ strategy7 has regularly proven counter-productive. Yet his firm Crosby Trextor was paid £18.6m for their part in the 2017 Conservative election campaign. Yes . . . £18.6m for that campaign – the one that reduced the government’s majority to a thread. Top of the tree for […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson’s retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party, was briefed by the anti-subversion network and apparently took on board the Soviet conspiracy theory. Her use of the expression ‘the enemy within’ about the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] social media abuse – there is much talk but little action. As I write, no better illustration of this can be seen than the submission by the Conservative Party to the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s review of electoral arrangements.4 Reports of this submission suggest a weakening rather than a strengthening of oversight. […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] dependent on the Americans. From this point of view, the so-called ‘Special Relationship’ was a vital concern of British capitalism and its political servants both Labour and Conservative. This recognition long pre-dated New Labour. The post-war Attlee government had recognised it fifty years earlier, although without any of New Labour’s enthusiasm. In the 1980s […]