The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] told that some British Jews are preparing to leave the UK in the event of a Labour victory.28 But wait: that came from the Chairman of the Conservative Party and he was referring to people he claims to know. These comments (and there were many similar in the first week of the election campaign) […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] figures in the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time. Several are now members of Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet. or 4 2 election, but not Williamson. He lost to Conservative Amanda Solloway by 41 votes. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, in which Williamson took a very active part, gave him a second bite […]

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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 […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 157) There are two ‘perfects’ and a ‘rational’ in that sentence. I have never met a ‘perfect’ where human arrangements were concerned (and little rationality); nor have conservative thinkers. Theirs is a generally pessimistic view of human potential: that we’re flawed and likely to mess things up and the best we can hope for […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was a strong champion of the veracity of the Protocols, ‘winning favourable comments from none other than Winston Churchill among many others. There was pressure from some Conservative MPs for an official inquiry into the Jewish conspiracy supposedly uncovered in the document’. (p. 31) The Times’ decision to publish Philip Graves’ three part exposé […]

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Japanese economy in the long term – the opposite in fact. In contrast, the experience in the UK is that the austerity policies promoted by the Conservative governments since 2010 have resulted in more damage to the long term prospects of the UK economy and in its short term economic performance. Kelton does […]

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