Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] world. David Cameron,1 Theresa May,2 various Liberal Democrat candidates3 and Nigel Farage,4 all stated that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world. In the Labour Party manifesto for the 2018 general election, Jeremy Corbyn stated that the UK is the fifth richest country The Independent, 9 November 2015 ? or and […]

Mexico missive

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] property relations and education guaranteed the reproduction of the system. Known in Marxist literature as a ‘comprador class’, it would tend to welcome the inward investment and labour which facilitated a lop-sided national development privileging its own extensive economic interests.5 Money, the greater part of it from London, therefore flowed into extractive and agricultural […]

The Return of the Public, and, Death of the Liberal Class

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[…] Truthdig.com and a widely published writer of power, passion and refinement. He marks the decline of ‘the liberal class’ in the United States – the press, the labour movement, universities, the Democratic party and liberal religious institutions – from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He says there are now no […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[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 […]

Just Boris by Sonia Purnell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] recounted in ‘The View from the Bridge’ in this issue. For Holt that was just one episode in a life of crime. Whose current head is former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband. I don’t know if IRC is still a CIA front. 19 6 kind of bagman for the CIA front, the International Rescue […]

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