finklestein 1976

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[…] memories of the previous year’s Treasury and Bank of England-led attempt to coerce the Labour government into a statutory incomes policy, Bernard Donoughue, of the Downing Street Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in his ‘dash for growth’ and this greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies suffered when the […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] was to cut consumption by cutting wages and it wanted a statutory incomes policy. For a Labour government, largely funded by the trade unions, 1 See . Conservative PM Edward Heath had created a credit boom in a ‘dash for growth’ and so greatly aggravated the inflation which all industrialised economies were suffering after […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Special Forces (SF) personnel. In the case of ArmorGroup, employees also included former senior MI6 officer Andrew Fulton,1 2 who has also been Chair of the Scottish Conservative Party. The listed contact for ArmorGroup in Iraq is ‘Country Manager’ John Farr MBE, who is ex-Parachute Regiment and possibly UK SF. He received his MBE […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] George Terry’s draft report on Kincora as ‘remarkably inept’ and suggested asking a senior civil servant to rewrite the material into one ‘condensed publishable version’.5 A former Conservative MP told me he had been informed personally that the RUC had also been circulating similar information to deter MPs from demanding an investigation into the […]

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that recaptured the seat for Labour with a majority of 2,015. Garratt introduces his short but well-sourced book with events two years later which led to the Conservative party regaining Derby North in 2019 with 4.8 per cent swing and with Williamson coming bottom of the poll as an or 1 Independent with 635 […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is Senator Ron Johnson, the current senior US senator from Wisconsin.2 Both have come to wider attention recently thanks to the efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch […]

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