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

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection’, CNBC, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at . 36 See ‘Don’t call us mercenaries, says British company with lucrative contracts and cheap labour’, the Guardian, 17 May 2004 at . Justification for this is that the £35 rate is very good compared to the potential home country rates of […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] this, all political parties continue to follow the example of Boris Johnson and assert that they can have their cake and eat it. Those who think the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an exception should look at his interview with Robert Peston.16 In my view this is no time for equivocation. We are […]

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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 […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] danger Trump posed. Whatever the outcome of the election and however turbulent what will hopefully be the last months of Trump’s tenure the Never Trumpers books remain relevant, useful and worth reading. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party.

A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] made so vociferously in the media were unfounded. ’ 9 By the time the report – originally commissioned by Mr Dorrell for the Conservatives – was published, Labour were in power. That less than two years old Government failed to tell Parliament how the review found ‘a member of Broadmoor’s staff’ had brought a […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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.

Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] and Frank Kitson being accorded the status of counterinsurgency gurus. Attempts to challenge this consensus were batted away without too much difficulty.1 Until that is, the New Labour decision to provide military support for the US adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly, the British record was most vulnerable in Kenya where it was always […]

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