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... 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 figures in American politics and business (described in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 64 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
... of agriculture, or simply in an unimaginative assumption that food can be taken for granted? Is there perhaps a covert belief that farmers and growers partake in 'the idiocy of rural life' and that their activities are inferior to and less important than those of technologists and media folk? Or is there a liberal unease with the political stance of Tory farmer/land-owners and the reactionary supporters of the Countryside Alliance? These speculations on Marr's reasons for ignoring a major feature of post-war British history may serve as a prologue to the main purpose of this essay: consideration of the political dimension to the organic movement, which has always argued for the national necessity of a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-25.htm
... 18.99 Reviewed by John Newsinger The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual ridicule and abuse of the Labour leader that had won the election for the Tories. Indeed, Cherie's anger was such that the Murdoch papers were banned from the Blair household. Today, her autobiography has been serialised in that very same Sun newspaper. It is not The Sun that has changed over the intervening years. But how does her autobiography remember the 1992 general election? There is no mention of the way ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46.htm
... issues, afraid of being smeared as 'unpatriotic' by the Murdoch-owned media. The Labour Party leadership, then and now, is afraid of tangling with the secret state for fear of damaging their careers. And so the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth about the 1970s, the Labour Party began its fateful relationship with Peter Mandelson instead. And style triumphed over substance. Advertisement Politics and Paranoia Talks, 1986 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-35.htm
... and its avoidance of contemporary horrors. For example, give or take the odd isolated outbreak, the modern misuse of the word 'gender' is avoided. One major regret is that Mr Turner chose to bring the curtain down in May 1979, given that the remainder of that year saw the changes of the 1970s start to crystallise. The Tories' first Budget switched the burden from direct to indirect taxation, hitting poorer families harder than wealthier ones. The war in Northern Ireland claimed Airey Neave, Lord Mountbatten and 18 British soldiers. Technology, touted in the 1950s and 1960s as the key to a glittering future, had become a threat, as newspapers and the airwaves filled ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-44.htm
... the early formative years of Livingstone's life up until the demise of the Greater London Council (GLC). There is a certain rough justice in this, in that it is this period which continues to define him for many people and provides a great deal of the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but was previously mentioned by Carvel. Their activism included helping at elections – always a key indicator of serious political commitment. They lived in a council flat for a few years in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-11.htm
... General Election. Yet he and the Labour Party emerged in better shape from the aftermath of the King coup than the plotters. In less than four years time they were back in power. Moreover, as Middlemas pointed out, the government did not suffer a leadership crisis in 1968.(50) Nor did it grow tired like the Tories in 1963-64, or Labour in 1950-51. Indeed by 1968-69 it had developed 'a machine for a powerful and generally coherent policy for industrial change' based on rationalisation, investment in science and technology and in education and training. All this was underpinned by a process of ongoing review of how industrial sectors were ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-03.htm
... Royal Pardon in 1996 and were released 11 months into a 17 year sentence for smuggling heroin, jurors were told. It was always thought they were allowed out of jail because the pair had turned supergrass and passed on important information to the police. But Haase allegedly told Mr Kilfoyle that he had paid large sums of money to the former Tory party leader and a customs official to secure their freedom, the court heard. Both Haase and Bennett are currently on trial for perverting the course of justice, accused of duping the authorities by setting up fake gun and drugs caches in order to get an early release. ' 9/11 The thought does occur that there are so ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-24.htm
... whole game was a play for power, no different from the pitch of any group of political gangsters and their camp-followers. Such is life without the checks and balances of federalism, coalitions and community. That club has perhaps eighteen months more in the sun at most (the cleverest will do a David Freud and switch to the Tory Party) and is then set to be replaced by their Tory equivalents. They are ageing, they have failed and been seen to fail in their analyses; and, now, their medium, the print media, is about to slide steadily down the tubes. Fear, naked fear, amongst the book-writing journos on my ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-19.htm
... the 1973/4 strike and sent some of their 'flying pickets' to stand outside sites that had been closed. I supported the strike until the 1974 so-called 'Ridley plan' (2 ) was revived in the media. This made it clear that the miners had been pushed into a strike for which the Thatcher wing of the Tory Party and the state had been preparing for a decade – Miners' Strike 2, the Showdown with the Left – and thus the miners were doomed. On page 245 of this book the authors write: 'the Prime Minister thought she was on a crusade against an Antichrist. After vanquishing the Argentineans she was going to vanquish "the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-42c.htm
