View from the bridge

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[…] took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who knew no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] years. See ‘Amway Corp. sales fell 8 percent to $10.8 billion in 2014’ at or or or . See ‘David Attenborough and Paul McCartney rejected by Denis Thatcher for Downing Street party’ by Sam Russell for The Independent, 21 July 2018 at or . 8 See the correspondence and list at or . Sykes, […]

View from the bridge

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[…] took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who knew no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] again and to see pictures of them doing their stuff all those years ago. On page 534 – yes, it’s that long – Robert Elms proclaims: ‘ Thatcher might have won elections, but culturally we won’; and ‘Look at Britain now: it’s a society where racism is absolutely frowned on; where gay marriage is […]

View from the bridge

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[…] . 38 39 40 12 Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who knew no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] are many opinions about the origins of Brexit. Historians will point to the importance of English exceptionalism; the gradual acceleration of the freemarket nationalism espoused by Powell, Thatcher, and their followers, including those based off-shore; the disinformation spread by much of the UK media; and the simple lack of understanding amongst the political class […]

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[…] political parties will publicly admit this (yet_ but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979, with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]

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[…] political parties will publicly admit this yet but they all must know it. They must also know that it began in 1979 with the arrival of the Thatcher government and the delusion that a modern western European society can function with low taxation. Florence SutcliffeBraithwaite reworks some of this in ‘It’s a shitshow’, her […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] down much better informed and, at the same time, seriously concerned that so much of what Miller reveals was new to him. It was during the Reagan- Thatcher years that the British so-called ‘private military companies’ first came into their own. Mercenaries had operated before then but, during that period, a permanent network of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of his memoir Hitch-22 (Atlantic Books, 2011) which he wrote while he was terminally ill. In this there is a section in which he describes meeting Mrs Thatcher for the first time while she was leader of the Opposition. At the end of this very odd encounter, Thatcher whacks him on his arse with […]

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