Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] on this occasion I could see how it might have been possible for some ignorant KGB officer to have confused DS Harley’s name with that of the Labour politician, although I thought it unlikely. In any event, the context was completely wrong, although I do admit that in Moscow I often sounded off about […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] started – as a major mistake. Lennox-Boyd, in turn, was a close political ally of Churchill. In another twist Ann Fleming was also having an affair with Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell (whom Eden personally disliked). Fleming’s property in Jamaica was not particularly well appointed and was somewhat isolated. During Eden’s stay at the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the necessary pantomimes to rubberstamp decisions taken in Whitehall. On the other hand, this was 1984: the Thatcher regime was still being challenged by the left; the Labour Party had not then embraced the ‘Washington consensus’; the American banks had not completed their take-over of British economic thinking; the Cold War had been revived […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Is it a coincidence that marginalism11 in economics and progressivism (in civilian and military forms) emerged as management ideologies at the same time slavery was abolished and labour unions were becoming a serious threat to the order of things? Another colloquial abuse is the term ‘Marshall Plan’. Generally this term is loaded with positive […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] followed, with a ‘stage-managed confession’ to the world’s media a month later; then, in mid-March 2016, the guilty verdict and sentence to 15 years imprisonment and hard labour. The Atlantic gives a decent summary of New slogans are issued by the NK government each year and the literal translations into English make them sound […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)