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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more

Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction with the Poll Tax, which she had pushed through against the advice of many in her own Cabinet, had […]

Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to identify his politics. Three years ago David Aaronovitch wrote about him. (14)Aaronovitch noted that Laughland is European Director of the European Foundation whose patron is Margaret Thatcher, and concluded by describing Laughland (and his associates) as ‘right-wing anti-state libertarians and isolationists, suspicious of any foreign entanglements’. Aaronovitch’s description above isn’t entirely inaccurate, though […]

Our Friends in the North-East

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] selected individuals seems likely. (6)The contribution of the SDP – in which Rodgers, Horam, Thomas and Wrigglesworth were prominent members – to British society was to keep Thatcher in power after 1981 by dividing the vote against her in 1983 and 1987. The impact this had on UK manufacturing and municipal government (the core […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] judges were unofficially allocated to miners’ cases for “consistency,”‘ a remark that casts some doubt on the concept of a fair trial.(15) David Hart, unofficial adviser to Thatcher during the Miners’ Strike and generous supporter of working miners, has been said by some to have achieved literary immortality in David Peace’s fictional account of […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] he schemed with right-wing Oklahoma lawyer R. Marc Nuttle (‘National Field Consultant’ to the Committee For The Survival of a Free Congress) to lure Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to a luncheon for the Private Enterprises Foundation. It is claimed that Holihan’s share of the proceeds was to be nothing less than $50,000. Unfortunately for […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] audiences over Iraq, Ledeen through the good offices of the Hollinger Group, until recently run by the Telegraph/Spectator group owner Conrad Black who was ennobled by Margaret Thatcher. Perle, who appeared repeatedly in newspapers and on radio and TV in Britain during the build-up to war, was for many years a Hollinger director. In […]

Steady Eddie blows the gaff

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] first sign of recession the MPC behaved just like any demand management ‘Keynesian’ politician of the type that was supposed to have been made extinct in the Thatcher years — with one huge difference: before Mrs Thatcher the government would have used public, state spending to create demand in the domestic economy; the MPC […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] at a press conference in the House of Commons in 1986 were not interested and, while we thought we had a story which might bring down the Thatcher government if taken seriously, not a word appeared in print in the following months. Figuring that my part in the story was over, that the major […]

Clippings: The Lie Detector Story

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] beyond normal 30 yrs. Remarks by Lord Donaldson, Ch’mn Advisory Council on Public Records in 24 th Annual Report of Public Records Office. (Guardian 1 July 1983.) Thatcher personally stops publication of two books: official histories of war-time MI5 and war-time counter intelligence operations. (Guardian 25 November and 8 December 1983) Anthony Lester QC […]

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