Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

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[PDF file]: […] review, space does not permit a fuller discussion of their origins, motives and development. 1 1 might have had something to do with Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] The Realist and Steamshovel. The lobby On 29 October, the day that the general election was announced, the Spectator ran a piece by a Stephen Daisley, ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for 20 Valentine’s book on this subject is reviewed in Lobster 73 at . 21 22 See . 23 At or […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] institutional and political interests.’25 The lobby On 29 October, the day that the general election was announced, the Spectator ran a piece by a Stephen Daisley, ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for anti-Semitism’.26 Daisley describes Labour as ‘the largest and most successful anti-Semitic political party in Western Europe’ and Jeremy Corbyn as […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Right, i.e. white evangelical Christians. The overwhelming majority of American Jews actually voted for Obama, both in 2008 and in 2012. He got 78% of the Jewish vote in 2008 and 69% in 2012. Moreover, Hillary Clinton got 71% of the Jewish vote when she ran against Donald Trump in Rubin, The Islamic Tsunami […]

Making America Great

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[PDF file]: […] GREATNESS’. (pp. 229-234) Indeed, so Christian in its achievements has the Trump Presidency been, Strang just cannot understand why the one in five evangelicals who did not vote for him in 2016 have not rallied to him since. They obviously do not know him. He is not the dissolute man he was, but is […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] failed to address the growing popular feeling against continued European Union membership. For many Labour members ‘being European’ trumped political practicalities. Marching in support of a People’s Vote wearing a ‘Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit’ T-shirt didn’t amount to a winning electoral strategy in 2019. ‘Take Back Control’ and ‘Get Brexit Done’, by contrast, suggested […]

The Blair Supremacy A study in the politics of Labour’s party management by Lewis Minkin

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[PDF file]: […] of competing interests. The first chapters of Minkin’s book explore the complex relationship between reformist elements during John Smith’s leadership, particularly in the run-up to the 1993 vote on introducing OMOV – One Member, One Vote. The manoeuvres about how to give ordinary members a greater say in the party’s affairs took on epic […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issues, that two Republicans actually voted against her. For the first time in the history of the US Senate, the Vice President had to use his casting vote to carry an appointment to the Cabinet. Pence is also close to her brother, Erik Prince – the founder of the notorious Blackwater mercenary company – […]

Apocryphilia

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[PDF file]: […] David Lloyd-George).2 Government policy then was to intervene and regulate wherever needed to ensure the highest standards of living for 1 A mass electorate, where one person=one vote, only emerged in the UK in 1918, later than in many other countries. The Liberal Party split of 1931 produced a two party system that lasted […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

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[PDF file]: […] again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s careful repositioning, presciently observed: 6 Continues […]

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