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... , The City: A Socialist Approach.1 4 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? W hen Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were doing. It was obvious that they had one eye on the first Thatcher government which raised interest rates (and so reduced demand in the economy) in 1981 while in a recession of their own making. This was the incident which provoked the letter signed by 364 economists, who wrote, inter alia: 'There is no basis in economic theory or supporting evidence for the Government's belief that by deflating demand they ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Casey and Ed Meese, Reagan's foreign affairs advisor, and sworn to secrecy. The British cabinet set up a secret sub-committee to oversee the project, with both the Home Office (MI5) and the FCO (MI6) ordered to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project government blessing. During the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial ex-Minister Alan Clark let the cat out of the bag revealing that 'the interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting each other, and the longer the better. ' The plan was totally illegal. US export regulations banning the export ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-maggies-secret.pdf
... What if..... In 'The future's not ours to see, ', his review of Atkinson and Elliot's Going South, in Lobster 65,1 Simon Matthews offered a kind of alternative history of British history in the 1970s and 80s, in which Mrs Thatcher did not win the general election of 1979. Michael Morton contacted me to let me know such speculation had already been done by Andrew Marr in 1993 on BBC television; and that the scenarios discussed by Marr and various interviewees had originally been published in his magazine Alternate Worlds in January 1995.2 Very kindly, Michael Morton supplied a copy of the transcript of that Andrew Marr piece. Without Her ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 130 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-what-if.pdf
... MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, from 1983 to 2001. Michael Mates MP was a Conservative Northern Ireland minister from 1992 to 1993 until forced to resign after the publication of a letter he had written to the attorney-general in support of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, 'Don't let the buggers get you down'. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir's 2012 trial and later last year, when he was runner-up in an election for police and crime commissioner in Hampshire, he said of his support for Nadir: ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-asil-nadir-conspiracy.pdf
... also the story of the first post-Cold War Prime Minister, John Major (now Sir John). He took office just a few days after the signing of the Peace of Paris, which ended the east-west struggle and ushered in what Philip Bobbitt has called 'the market state'.2 Indeed, Major's predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, was in the French capital for this event when she heard she had failed convincingly to see off the 1 'The Nostalgia Game', article first published 1986, republished in his Games with Shadows (Radius, 1988) 2 The Shield of Achilles (Penguin, 2002) leadership challenge from Michael Heseltine of which Major proved to be ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 20 Sep 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-classless-society.pdf
276. Apocryphylia [Lobster #66 (Winter 2013) (free)] [Free Article]
... .uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldprivi/154/154.pdf>. MP – for non-declaration of an interest – was dismissed. Cunningham remains an unaffiliated member of the House of Lords. How is it, towards the East? For anyone wanting to actively avoid the ludicrous and delusional media overkill of the Thatcher funeral, the Diamond Jubilee and the Royal baby earlier this year, the mixed media exhibition that ran at the Calvert 22 gallery in May-June would have been a welcome relief. Entitled 'How is it, towards the East? ', (an enquiry made, apparently, by William Morris in 1890 about East London), ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 07 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-apocryphylia.pdf
... the fabric of British society, such as health and education; but it is not in itself corrupt. It has been hamstrung by rules, regulations and laws imposed from Europe, by countries that have no tradition of Common Law or Habeas Corpus and where secret justice has been the norm and not the exception. But with the rise of Thatcher and the great show trials of the early nineties related to the clandestine Anglo-American arming of Iraq – Euromac,5 Ordtec, Matrix Churchill, Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir – the iron fist of political control has been worthy of anything that has come out of Eastern Europe. In those trials evidence was not properly investigated, it ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 10 Dec 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-secret-justice-asil-nadir.pdf
... retirement, loss of authority to rival agencies, and any weakening of the nation's drug laws. ' BAP sighting Thanks to Corinne Souza who pointed this story out to me. In the Independent on Sunday of 1 September 2013 Yasmin Alibhai Brown wrote the following in a piece called 'The special relationship is over. At long last! ' 'When Thatcher and Reagan were locked in their long embrace, I was selected to join a network, the British- American Project, partly funded by the CIA. Politicians, armed force representatives, CEOs, journalists, artists and policy wonks from both countries gathered there and here. I learnt more about this relationship and made some good friends. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 02 Jan 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
... '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
... it, and the winter of 1978-9 saw a series of stoppages which caused great inconvenience to the public while suggesting that the government had (like Heath five years before) lost control of events. The fallout cost Labour the 1979 General Election and let in Mrs Thatcher's Conservatives. This is where the great change really started. The Thatcher governments, in power from 1979-1990, were increasingly dominated by disciples of Hayek and Friedman. Leading Cabinet Ministers such as Chancellors Sir Geoffrey Howe (1979-83) and Nigel Lawson (1983-89) and Industry and then Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph (1979-86), believed that the crisis of stagflation and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 29 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-the-crisis.pdf
