Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago mayor Anton Cermak – died when his […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] about his fellow correspondents in Berlin and the various proprietors they worked for. Certainly, Rothermere seems to have been the worst, although Clement Attlee did apparently describe Lord Beaverbrook as ‘the only evil man I ever met’. (p. 121) John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the German industrial […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] was talking to a City source yesterday (one who is strongly opposed to the investment bankers “soft coup” of Westminster and Whitehall). He said that under New Labour, H.M. Treasury had been “utterly captured” by the investment banking industry. He said it had happened through subscription to a ludicrously flawed ideology, the “revolving door’” […]