Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] on with the serious business of looting the global economy and crushing attempts to hold them to account. And this government? It has learned the lesson that Thatcher never grasped: if you want to turn this country into another Mexico, where the ruling elite wallows in unimaginable, state-facilitated wealth, while the rest can go […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a major event after all. He opines that Callaghan wouldn’t have won a majority and that a general election in late ’78, therefore, may have led to Thatcher being asked to form a government anyway, as Callaghan would have gone to the country and failed. This seems plain wrong. If the election had gone […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the Independent on Sunday of 1 September 2013 Yasmin Alibhai Brown wrote the following in a piece called ‘The special relationship is over. At long last!’ ‘When Thatcher and Reagan were locked in their long embrace, I 50 The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 37, No. 1, September 14, 2013, available at . 51 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] They take us from his initial struggle to gain entrance to the temporary morgue where Flora’s body was taken, via the Lockerbie visit of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, through the decades-long fight to establish what really happened to the trial, imprisonment and death of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan found guilty of causing the death […]