Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] Queen and, in the City, Lord Rothschild.’ Or… The Geneva Bible? The Testimony of Albert Rhys Williams? World Conservation Bank in the light of Kontradiev and Conspiracy? Thatcher and Reagan fold before wrath of Royalty and Rhodes scholars? A-Albionic is seriously weird (in the complimentary sense) and it/they has/have an extremely exotic mail order […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] with, she tells us, through her ‘employment law work’. This is a complete travesty. The strike was deliberately provoked by Murdoch, with the full support of the Thatcher government, in order to deny the workers their redundancy payments. She must have known this at the time through, as she puts it, her ‘employment law […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] was simply killed by a burglar, Mr Green agreed it was. But he thought not. ‘I do believe that it was that issue of …… Dalyell embarrassing Thatcher which was the trigger that fuelled my aunt’s fate. It was the fear of what she might know.'(1) Mulling over Kintyre Ten years after 25 counter-terrorist […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] Special Branch, SAS and MI5. By the 1990s the British government was seeking an accommodation with Sinn Fein and counter-terror was passing out of favour. Whereas under Thatcher, the SAS (‘her boys’) had what amounted to a license to kill PIRA volunteers, under John Major the license was revoked. After 1990 the Chief Constable […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] of trying to suppress chapter in OECD report on the economy which states that unemployment causes poverty. We kid you not! Guardian 16 June Material on Mrs Thatcher and her links with the Oman business and Trafalgar House removed from World in Action programme by IBA. This is the result of recent changes in […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] research in marketing), The Mayfair Set (about a section of the British right in London in the 1970s considered as a microcosm of and forerunner to the Thatcher era) and, most recently, The Trap. I didn’t think much of The Trap’s thesis and thought its version of the concept of freedom contrived and philosophically […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] it is that the technological nation of the 1950s and 60s he describes had so little influence that it was unable to prevent both the Heath and Thatcher governments from deregulating the City of London — and wrecking the manufacturing economy. Or, more interestingly perhaps, how it was that the Tories persuaded the manufacturing […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] that Garnett’s book, another rattling good read, traces the story from the mid-1970s to now, while Mr Turner begins in 1970 and calls a halt when Mrs Thatcher takes office in May 1979. Mr Garnett is unafraid to interpose his opinions into his own narrative, as when he declares that private medicine and education […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Sir Keith Joseph’s talk of instituting a ‘patriotic’ history curriculum in secondary schools, and, arguably, the reappearance of The Round Table. All have taken place since the Thatcher Government removed exchange controls and allowed the current flood of UK capital abroad to take place. (About £60 billion has gone since 1979.) As the core […]