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... to be true, it is too good to be true. For an entertaining examination of the events of the 1990s leading up to the present mess, see Frank Portnoy, Fiasco: blood in the water on Wall Street (London: Profile Books, 1997) On the wider British issues, the connections between the current situation and the Thatcher years' obsession with the market and the City, see Peter Wilby, 'All of us live by the logic of finance' at <www.newstatesman.com> . Dan Hind's 'Jump You Fuckers', at <http://www.versobooks.com/> is a droll and sharp general piece about the crisis ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-14.htm
... common feature in all developed economies during the last forty or fifty years, but the UK experience has been more intense than in many comparable economies. In 1960 manufacturing accounted for 35 per cent of the UK GDP. It fell back from this level over the subsequent twenty years, but its share still remained over 30 per cent. The Thatcher years saw a much more rapid decline, as large parts of British industry closed down while the financial and service sectors expanded. This process slowed down, and was for a time even reversed during the Major Premiership, but by the end of the 1990s manufacturing was contributing a little over 20 per cent to the GDP. The contraction ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-26.htm
... But it wasn't just prejudice on my part. I had tried. Before I began Lobster, me and another bloke in Hull, Colin Challen, now a Labour MP, produced a radical local monthly magazine. I stayed involved for about 20 issues, none of which sold more than 500 copies. At that time, four years into Thatcher, her big recession in full swing, local radical mags were springing up all over Britain. I remember attending a conference in 1984 at which we all got together. But they all went bust, as far as I know. Yes, in Hull we couldn't get the distribution; and yes, we couldn't get the adver- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-27.htm
234. Re: [Lobster #57 (Summer 2009)]
... explored by journalist Carl Fellstrom. 'I'm working on a book which is the story of an undercover police officer. Believe it or not he went undercover to infiltrate the miners during the strike. A lot of people wouldn't realise that the authorities in Nottingham would use their own police officers to resolve what was a civil law situation, but that's Thatcher for you. '( 24) All in the mind?A series of experiments 'tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception [defined] as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random or unrelated stimuli. Participants who lacked control were more likely to perceive a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-29.htm
235. The Cuntocracy [Lobster #62 (Winter 2011 ) (free)] [Free Article]
... exact origin of something can be obviated quite simply: we simply provide our own mythology; people are a lot more willing to go along with myths rather than waste time finding out facts. If a trick works once it might just work again. One overlooked aspect of F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (the book Margaret Thatcher slapped the table with saying that it had taken over her mind) is in a short section called 'Why the Worst Get on Top', where it is argued that the most amorally flexible people involved in a bureaucracy tend to rise to the top and become its leaders.8 Hayek pretended he was writing on 'totalitarianism', something ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 03 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-cuntocracy.pdf
... are many) was going to stop it, as long as this country was committed to being a military nuclear power. 'Consultation' is not democracy; public inquiries are not Socratic dialogues; for the most part they are the necessary pantomimes to rubber- stamp decisions taken in Whitehall. On the other hand, this was 1984: the Thatcher regime was still being challenged by the left; the Labour Party had not then embraced the 'Washington consensus'; the American banks had not completed their take-over of British economic thinking; the Cold War had been revived for the benefit of the American arms companies and opposition to American power and nuclear power was significant. The British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 13 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-murrell-murder.pdf
... a crude and inappropriate reading of power with such communities and, instead, allows us to understand better how bias is perpetrated and disseminated within, and beyond, the transnational elite network. ' (p . 13) I also noted a retelling of the story, originally recounted by Jon Ronson in the Guardian in 1999, of how Mrs Thatcher was invited to the 1975 meeting and wowed a number of Americans who were there, which led to her being taken seriously and promoted in the US. That her simple-minded views made a good impression on the gathering may tell us a lot about those present; but she had already been spotted by the US embassy in London ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 22 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-bilderberg.pdf
... American Express...… At American Express, one insider complained 'that in his experience, McKinsey's people were primarily interested in telling management exactly what it wanted to hear....McKinsey has, indeed, provided the cover an executive needed to carry out distasteful dismissals, restructurings, downsizings'.3 Most 2 Simon Jenkins, Thatcher & Sons, (London: Penguin, 2007), p. 277 3 James O'Shea and Charles Madigan, Dangerous Company , (London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1999), pp. 256, 261-262 infamously, they advised Enron for nearly two decades, but to the surprise of industry experts, 'McKinsey managed to get ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 18 Dec 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-lord-browne.pdf
... the-uk-political- world/> 7 <www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vicious-dictatorship- which-bell-pottinger-was-prepared-to-do-business-with-6272766.html> by Tim (Lord) Bell, the man who helped make Margaret Thatcher, was Mattinson, Gould's old sidekick in the 'modernisation' of Labour. Hill's partner is Hilary Coffman, who previously worked for Kinnock and Michael Foot. BAP and the BEEB Hill's sister, BBC chief editorial adviser Margaret, is a long- standing member of the British American Project (Lobsters passim) whose members now seem to fill ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 18 Dec 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-tittle-tattle.pdf
... 23rd Airborne Territorial SAS in Hereford that provided the main recruitment conduit for these state sanctioned covert operations. Again, the memoir of 'Tom Carew' would seem to confirm this. Outsourced state terrorism and the contras The link between British Special Forces and military privatisation partly entered the public domain in the Iran- Contra Affair. In 1983, Margaret Thatcher was returned to office with an increased majority only because of the Falklands' War. But victory in that war carried a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the CIA from its listening posts in Pinochet's Chile. As payback, US President Ronald Reagan expected the British to involve themselves in covert support to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 07 Apr 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-armed-dangerous.pdf
