The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] me. 2 Inflation was 8% in 1982 and 8% in 1990. See . 3 Look at the graph at . 4 1 despite her best efforts to kill it, had a manufacturing base three times as big as it is now. The new government has little oil revenue; a much diminished manufacturing base; and […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] “cold war” fought throughout the 1980s in which rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis […]

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