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... history professor. Yet as one cherished post- war economic myth after another is gunned down, it is an irresistible one. The 1964-1970 Labour Government was fatally compromised by a foolish refusal to devalue sterling right at the start? Bang! Its Seventies successor buried social democracy after the 1976 sterling crisis and paved the way for Mrs Thatcher? Pow! Say what you like about Maggie, but she gave Britain its own economic miracle? A melon is shredded as Fox's exploding bullet finds its mark. Professor Newton's title is something of a misnomer, as he identifies two reinventions. The first is the embrace of a form of European social democracy by Harold Macmillan and his ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 98 - 08 Dec 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-reinvention-britain.pdf
... made this point to me. 2 The author has a website <Clivebloom.com/>. the author's 'secondary sources', where he has me as Robin Ramsan. Duncan Campbell is mentioned twice, en passant, but is missed by Bloom's indexer. The book is in two distinct sections: the 1974-1979 period, before Thatcher took office, and her period at No. 10. The 1974-79 period is the most interesting to me and about which I know most, and it is that section on which I will concentrate; and I am afraid this will be almost entirely a catalogue of the author's errors. On page 15 we have this: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 98 - 11 Oct 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-thatchers-secret-war.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 21) May 1991 Last | Contents | Next Issue 21 Western Goals (UK)Mike Hughes Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or 'new' right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an 'anti wet' alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical traditions within the Conservative Party, (1 ) united by their opposition to the dominant, mainstream tradition within the Conservative Party. Once Thatcher's position as party leader ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 97 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-03.htm
... 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
... 9 Last | Contents | Next Issue 56 The view from the bridge Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Giles Scott-Smith,(1 ) who wrote about the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Lobster 36 and 38 , has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher's first visit to America in 1967.(2 ) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department's man in the London embassy who liaised with the Tory Party, and was sent on a six week freebie in 1967 c/o the State Department's International Visitor Program. While there she was given VIP treatment and introduced to many big ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.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 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-069.pdf
... , and like others of that ilk, I am looking for a way out of the present farce-cum-nightmare of a Labour Party lead by a tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1 ) To understand where we are now, we have to go back to the 1970s. For the 1970s led to Mrs. Thatcher, which led to the progressive collapse of Labour as a radical, reforming party.(2 ) Mrs. Thatcher claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 86 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-07.htm
... 'Election Diary, ' The Guardian , 1 May 1979. 11 Frank Johnson, 'Shirley, the Belgian lieutenant's woman, ' The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 'Social Democratic Alliance statement, ' The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), 'Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 1974- 1978, ' appendix 6: 'Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 - non Army origin'. 14 'New Marxism charge for privileges body', The Times, 19 November 76. Association of Democratic Groups in sponsoring a 1981 conference intended to build support for the new SDP. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 83 - 19 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-atlantic-semantic.pdf
... , whom he met in June 1974 – an event organised by Clermont Club regular Jim Slater, at the house of Peter Walker MP – and appears to have believed that, had Heath won a subsequent election (and become prime minister in, say, 1975) he would have been given a peerage and a significant government position. Supporting Thatcher While these discussions took place, Goldsmith was funding a UK political project implicitly hostile to Heath, the Centre for Policy Studies, launched in June 1974 with the endorsement of Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher, and with the late Alfred Sherman as its first director. Heath did not return to power. In the October 1974 general election ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 82 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-32.htm
... 1984-85 miners' strike, which he describes as 'the most honourable strike I have ever taken part in'. Men went on strike to save other men's jobs, enduring immense hardship, the daily abuse of the press and a degree of police repression not seen since the 1930s. As he points out, the union argued that Thatcher 'had 70 pits on a secret hit list' and planned the effective destruction of the coal industry, something that was vehemently and categorically denied at the time. Thirty years later, 'we got to read the proof in black and white. The official documents vindicate the miners, their families and their supporters'. The Tories lied. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 11 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-sailing-close.pdf
