Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] markedly similar situation in the UK, some of the indigenous population seemingly consider themselves above serving food in restaurants, mopping floors in hospitals and other general manual labour. Providing the 1 Locals who live next to his Aberdeen golf course raised Mexican flags next to their own St Andrew’s Crosses in a spirit of […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and was one of the causes of the inflation of the 1970s (which reached 25% in 1975). That inflation became a stick with which the Tories beat Labour and unions in the 1974-79 period and beyond, 98 Winter 2010 and a section of the Tory right beat the Heathites. Mrs Thatcher and her faction […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Right will suddenly discover that Trump’s excesses are, in all conscience, no longer tolerable. * John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] in Europe about which I know little and would have difficulty checking. In this situation the reviewer heads for familiar territory and Cottrell has included the anti- Labour events of the 1960s and 70s which I know pretty well; and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Among other things, this cycle also appears to map very roughly on to the political cycle: electability seems the preferred strategy of the far right during a Labour government and violence during a Conservative one. A fundamental issue in this kind of research is that the distance between the academics and what they write […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] felt obliged to permanently distance himself from News International, Johnson very deliberately decided to publicly associate himself with Murdoch, dismissing the ‘Hacking scandal’ as ‘codswallop’ and a Labour stunt. He very publicly invited Murdoch to be his guest at the Olympics. Without much doubt his thinking is that Murdoch will ride out the ‘Hacking […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] critical of senior political and legal figures in Scotland while paying tribute to those north and south of the border who offered strong practical support, including veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell and emeritus law professor Robert Black of Edinburgh University. The Lockerbie Bombing lacks an index but is well footnoted in support of a […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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