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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 27 Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City Robin Ramsay Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn't take genius to notice that while the UK's manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less frequently commented on, the UK economy as a whole was becoming self-sufficient in oil, without apparently gaining anything from it. Ah-ha, I thought, I smell a big rip-off. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 438 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-02.htm
... (On which sorry tale see 'View from the Bridge' in this issue.) When I used some of that for the Well, how did we get here? essay, I reread this section for the first time in years and it struck me as rather interesting that the last prime minister who had tried to challenge the City was Thatcher, and she lost. Thatcher versus the City of London Robin Ramsay The older I get the more I am struck by the economic illiteracy of our politicians. I don't mean their grasp of economic theory, most of which is bollocks or irrelevant; I mean their grasp of our economic history and the structural conflict between domestic and overseas ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 426 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-098.pdf
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 28 The liberal apocalypse: or, understanding the 1970s and 80s We've just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We've seen recently: Richard Cockett's Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83, (Harper Collins, London, 1994, 25.00); 'Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals', by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;* and 'Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony' by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. [* The 20th ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 165 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-13.htm
... (Harry's Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The widespread shock which greeted his assassination was probably nowhere more clearly felt than by Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the Conservative opposition. Neave had masterminded Thatcher's rise to power in the Conservative Party, organising her election as party leader. It was probably him who directed the 'dirty tricks' campaign against Heath which proved so effective. From 1975 until his death Neave headed Thatcher's private office. It was expected that he would be ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 152 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-05.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 11) April 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 11 Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 The National Association for Freedom As they drifted out of the press, GB 75 and Civil Assistance were replaced by the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) as the public focus of right-wing activity. NAFF's inaugural meeting was held on July 19 1975 (69), and preparations must have been going on for some time before that. Little has been written about those early days but at a NAFF meeting in August 1975, the ubiquitous Chapman Pincher addressed "30 senior industrialists and businessmen" on "the grave ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 146 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-07.htm
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Terms matched: 1 - Score: 128 - 01 Mar 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/findhelp.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last| Contents| Next Issue 35 The Oyston Affair continues: D909 and the friends of Margaret Thatcher Andrew Rosthorn The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge after the town hall and the homes of councillors had been unlawfully raided in an abortive police operation known as Operation Angel, said to have cost about £25 million. Lancashire commerce branch detectives trawled ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 117 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last| Contents| Next Issue 40 Margaret Thatcher Vol 1: The Grocer's Daughter John Campbell Jonathan Cape, London 2000, £25.00 Campbell wrote the much acclaimed biography of Edward Heath and this has had similarly good notices. It is a very good, orthodox biography. It describes her political career to 1979 in great detail and provides enough personal information to understand how she acquired that rigid, humourless, repressed, character. But where Mrs Thatcher is concerned, an orthodox biography doesn't make it. None of the paramilitary and psy-ops events of the 1974-79 period which led to her 1979 election victory are mentioned. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-20.htm
... (he had been an important Information Research Department conduit). Much more important is what they do reveal about how contemporary Britain is ruled; and the word ruled is used very deliberately. In the period covered by these diaries, Wyatt was Rupert Murdoch's fixer in London and, in particular, acted as his go-between, first with Margaret Thatcher, and later with John Major. This material is extremely interesting, providing, among other things, an insider's account of Murdoch's embrace of Tony Blair and New Labour. In a country with a more robust democratic tradition what Wyatt reveals would be a scandal, in Britain we have become so used to governments courting Murdoch that it hardly ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 93 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-08.htm
... the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: 'The 1984 miners' strike was supported by a very large number of members of the National Union of Mineworkers, but it was directed by a triumvirate who had declared that they were using the strike to try to bring down the elected government of Margaret Thatcher and it was actively supported by the Communist party. What was it legitimate for us to do about that? We quickly decided that the 2 How did MI5 know about the Soviet funds to the CPGB? Perhaps through their penetration of the CPGB, though the knowledge of the money was held very closely within the Party. [For ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-069.pdf
