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 – […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]

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 […]

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