Tittle Tattle

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 5 concealed a steady decline in Labour support, both in terms of activism and electoral turnout, leading to the present situation in which a very orthodox and conservative Labour seems incapable of landing a punch on a coalition submerged in political and economic crisis. Along the way Gould, apparently a rather undistinguished advertising man,6 […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] to cover up abuses of power? 19 Having read this document, it is important to bear in mind the following comment made by Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party Conference, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, 10 October 1975, only eight months after I was moved out of Northern Ireland. The first duty of Government is to […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

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[PDF file]: […] twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]

Misc reviews

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[…] wanted the author to make a judgement: this one, although denied, looks true. He never does. So we finish as we began: Opus Dei, officially, is a conservative, proselytising sect within the Catholic Church. Its critics, including some former members, say it is also a conspiracy; that while there is a public front, a […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in other nations when Theresa 45 46 47 Another little mystery might be explained by an MI6 link. Fresh out of Oxford University, young Dave’s entrance to Conservative Central Office was smoothed by a phone call from someone at Buckingham Palace, who told the startled recipient: ‘I understand you are to see David Cameron. […]

The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

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[PDF file]: […] pro-inequality model of political economy, dysfunctional as it has been, proved remarkably resilient.’ How and why has this happened in the 21st century under Labour, Coalition and Conservative governments? Lansley says the key explanation for Britain’s high poverty rate lies in profound economic and social shifts. These include the speed of industrial change, the […]

View from the bridge

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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 […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

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[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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