Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] the safety culture on sites. Building work is intrinsically dangerous; many are killed and injured. Improving safety regimes means working more carefully and slowly, and this increases labour costs. The picture that emerges of the construction industry in the UK in recent years is that of ruthless companies, for whom injuries to and deaths […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
FREE
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] result the laws of war codified the practices of class (and race) distinctions too. In a POW camp it is generally prohibited to assign officers to manual labour. Within the scope of the camp’s resources, officers are to be accorded the courtesies and privileges due to their rank even in captivity. US soldiers remain […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] populist movement’ that was all about ‘taking down modern The US charter schools provided the model for the break-up of the British school system initiated by New Labour with local authority-controlled schools being turned into ‘academies’. 9 DeVos resigned from her position on 8 January 2021, condemning Trump for his part in inciting the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] years later? Or did ‘the machine’ simply not bring it to their attention? What is clear, however, is that Savile’s gradual easing out from Broadmoor began after Labour took office in May 1997. By July that year, Savile’s friend and colleague Alan Franey had been nudged into taking early retirement from his post as […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] Irish who had no reason to love Britain as the colonial master of their ancestral homeland?4 Complicating this was the known activism of Germans in the emerging labour movement. Then there was the large number of rural and semi-rural inhabitants far from the centres of power. Leaving aside the notorious ignorance of world geography […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
FREE
[PDF file]: To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] million inhabitants of the UK – and its fiscal policy reflected this: inheriting a standard rate of income tax of 9 shillings in the pound (45%) from Labour in 1951, Butler immediately increased this to its highest ever peace time level of 9 shillings and 6 pence (47.5%) a year later, also allowing at […]