The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] shallow and temporary. (pp. 2/3) The author traces this well-footnoted and indexed history with academic rigour and journalistic anecdote. He shows how the free-market evangelists of the Thatcher and Reagan era repeated the myth that the great prize for a widening gap would be faster growth and a new economic dynamism that would raise […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. * new * The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re […]

Everybody now loves widgets!

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the first annual conference of EEF, the Engineering Employers Federation, now the clunkily self-styled ‘Manufacturers Organisation for UK Manufacturing’. 5 The text is at . subheading ‘Margaret Thatcher spoke enthusiastically about regional aid’ – in the Telegraph (24 November 2011). Green noted in his opening paragraph: ‘Despite the hype, the City (financial services and […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nearly thirty years, she started trying to tell her story in 2003, apparently motivated by disgust at the covert sale of arms to Saddam Hussein under Margaret Thatcher and by utter despair at the aggressive foreign policy of Ariel Sharon and the Likud regime in Israel. Sharon’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon killed her lover. […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the tough world of NUM politics, largely keeping from public view his disagreements with Mick McGahey and Arthur Scargill and others while facing the venom of Margaret Thatcher and the power of the state. This is an insider’s view of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, the subsequent closures and the working of the NUM. But […]

The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] will of the party is void: Sturgeon is the party. The party payroll is as close to a cult as I have witnessed in mainstream UK politics. Thatcher experienced greater dissension within the Tories at the height of her popularity. There are two main schools of thought regarding Sturgeon’s inaction in progressing independence. * […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Israel to open the Rothschild-funded Supreme Court building later that year.128 Jacob was among the guests to the exclusive annual Hollinger dinner in 1998, alongside Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.129 Despite Black’s legal troubles he retained his contacts with the Rothschilds: […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not its documented involvement in the Thatcher era ‘think-tanks’. There’s not a word on the British American Project and other welldocumented Atlanticist networks. Jones refers to personnel at Policy Exchange, but not its […]

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