Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issue of The Jewish Chronicle before the general election Peter Mandelson was given space by editor Stephen Pollard to write the leading comment article urging readers to vote Labour. ‘Our beliefs are your beliefs,’ wrote Mandelson: ‘The Labour Party is driven by many of the same values that have historically united and defined the […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Chile apart from most other Latin American states.19 The electoral verdict was favourable: having come to power in November 1970 with 37 per cent of the popular vote, Congressional elections in March 1973 saw Popular Unity increase its share to 44 per cent.20 At the same time as his Popular Unity government was driving […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]

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