The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] But it does ignore the European dimension, that is to say the acceptance by the governments of the six nations who formed the ECSC and then the EEC that political and economic integration was the best way to continue what the fine historian Alan Milward called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Ireland started moving slowly down that route. Equally, it must also be the case – given her earlier demands for a rebate in UK contributions to the EEC, and her sharing of many of Powell’s views – that she would have ended up with a highly adversarial relationship with Europe anyway. It is not […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
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[PDF file]: […] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]

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[…] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]

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[…] twenty five years before 1975 is 1950. Between 1950 and 1975 was hardly a catastrophe. Economic growth may have fallen behind the USA and some of the EEC; lots of things could have been improved. But if Britain in 1965 was not heaven on earth, nobody was living in the doorways of Oxford St […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] words, the Government’s policy of not interning Loyalist paramilitaries was now in serious jeopardy. The situation was further complicated because the British Parliament was bitterly divided on EEC membership and Edward 18 See Document 10 in the separate Wallace Appendices file. 16 Heath needed the eight Unionist votes in the House of Commons to […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] years of Cityoriented economic policies, the UK would be just another middling social democratic society. As it is, compared to – say – the members of the EEC when the UK joined in 1973, we have the worst housing, transport system and roads; the worst health and old age care; the worst education system; […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] European market and away from Commonwealth and Empire countries, the economic complement of the military turn to Europe was not formalized until 1973, when Britain entered the EEC (European Economic Community). This was the era of social democratic Britain, one in which governments of both major parties were committed to programmes of industrial modernization […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] But it does ignore the European dimension, that is to say the acceptance by the governments of the six nations who formed the ECSC and then the EEC that political and economic integration was the best way to continue what the fine historian Alan Milward called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state […]

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