Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] general has indeed been ‘around for decades’. The former Conservative MP Edwina Currie mentions in her memoirs that Peter Morrison, a fellow Conservative MP and aide to Thatcher, was a ‘noted pederast with a taste for young boys’. She adds that he confessed as much to another senior Conservative MP, Norman Tebbit, and wonders […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the preceding Conservative government (and of course, by implication, critical of any accommodation with those hinted at 1 Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre- Thatcher, pregentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the grip of German bankers intent on preaching protestant rectitude to ill-disciplined countries – which amounted to every country apart from itself, and even itself at times. Thatcher, Blair and Brown The policy choices that the UK made and then induced the EU to follow, were promoting globalisation and reducing protectionism through Thatcherism, and […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Executive Committee (NEC) had agreed proposals for the selection and re-selection of Parliamentary candidates, as suggested by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. Even after 1979, with Thatcher markedly unpopular, it was assumed (pre-Falklands War) that Labour would win any general election called in 1982-1983.7 Had Labour won a general election in 1978, then, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] activities of the RUC, the Army and of the Security Services and he had not done so.’ In terms of the file which I sent to Mrs Thatcher personally in November 1984, for onward transmission to the Hughes Inquiry, Sir John Blelloch wrote: ‘Judge Hughes feels that the terms of Lord Trefgarne’s letter of […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] the transnational elite network.’ (p. 13) I also noted a retelling of the story, originally recounted by Jon Ronson in the Guardian in 1999, of how Mrs Thatcher was invited to the 1975 meeting and wowed a number of Americans who were there, which led to her being taken seriously and promoted in the […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] protecting free markets while building national capabilities in telecoms, biotech and other key industries.’ The free market and national capabilities? Sounds awfully like what existed before Mrs Thatcher took office in 1979. Another sign of change was the publication a week earlier1 on the Telegraph website of a striking essay by Professor Lee Jones2 […]