Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a merchant bank. He was thus well aware of the psychological outlook that existed in the City. 2 2 Enter Goldsmith Post-1992, the official position of the Conservative government remained that the UK would rejoin the ERM as soon as was practicable. The problem was Major never had enough Conservative votes to execute such […]

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[…] is presumably not wholly coincidental that Britain’s decline from 10th in the OECD ‘league tables’ of economic performance to its present 18th began in 1980 when the Conservative government scrapped all the remaining controls on overseas investment of British-generated wealth. *new* Is Doty dotty? I have been slightly interested in the UFO phenomenon since […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 35, 39, 52, 60-61 4 6 difficulties caused by the election of a left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn, as leader of the Labour Party in the aftermath of the Conservative victory. Corbyn’s election was very much a repudiation of Blairism and New Labour by the party membership. Corbyn promised to end Labour’s embrace of neo-liberalism and […]

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[…] 1 or . 2 3 27th at . 4 1 in the OECD ‘league tables’ of economic performance to its present 18th began in 1980 when the Conservative government scrapped all the remaining controls on overseas investment of British-generated wealth. *new* Is Doty dotty? I have been slightly interested in the UFO phenomenon since […]

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[…] 35, 39, 52, 60-61 4 6 difficulties caused by the election of a left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn, as leader of the Labour Party in the aftermath of the Conservative victory. Corbyn’s election was very much a repudiation of Blairism and New Labour by the party membership. Corbyn promised to end Labour’s embrace of neo-liberalism and […]

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[…] 1 or . 2 3 27th at . 4 1 in the OECD ‘league tables’ of economic performance to its present 18th began in 1980 when the Conservative government scrapped all the remaining controls on overseas investment of British-generated wealth. *new* Is Doty dotty? I have been slightly interested in the UFO phenomenon since […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] an uneasy truce between two organized groupings, had the failure of Prime Minister James Callaghan to hold an autumn ‘78 election not opened the way to a Conservative win in ‘79. After which the failure of Callaghan to immediately resign the leadership of the Labour Party led to the creation of the SDP, to […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] over the past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a ” conservative cast of mind”’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan […]

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[…] reports, while lawyers provide litigation support. . . . What’s missing from those paragraphs (and the report generally) is the millions the Russians have given to the Conservative Party.4 Why is it missing? The Intelligence and Security Committee has a Conservative majority. Add those Russian millions to the more than ten million given to […]

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[…] over the past 40 years or so.4 He quotes a South African report from 1991 describing it as ‘an informal forum of influential representatives of a ” conservative cast of mind”’ – which is what Pinay/Le Cercle was and remains. Among recent British participants are former Conservative MPs Norman Lamont, Rory Stewart and Jonathan […]

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