The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] New York as a result flowed via corporate tax and asset and bond purchases to governments (so helping to finance the expansion of the welfare state under Blair and Brown) and, via banks, building societies and finance companies, both to businesses and to millions of private citizens. Lending expanded, personal and corporate borrowing mushroomed. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] does this only apply to those on the right. A recent autobiographical sketch of Gordon Brown does not suggest that he has grasped that he and Mr Blair also damaged the British economy by pursuing policies benefitting the City of London and damaging manufacturing.15 Burnham and the Israel lobby If, like me, you had […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. 14 15 John Hoskyns, Just In Time: inside the Thatcher revolution (London: Aurum, 2000) p. 107. He records […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of the Kremlin. Steele emphasises the Putin regime’s commitment to supporting authoritarianism and encouraging division throughout the West. As for his own political trajectory, he had supported Blair and New Labour, voting for them in 1997 and 2001, but was opposed to the Iraq War. Indeed, the invasion was one of the factors that […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.17 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] change in their relationship to the US and the global market.10 This actuality was disguised, as it had been during the See for example Scott Newton, ‘ Blair and Gladstone’, Lobster 42 (2001/2), or . 7 8 Gallagher and Robinson (see note 4) p. 13. 9 Cain and Hopkins (see note 3) pp. 285-6. […]

Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013)

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the overturning of the murder convictions of the Birmingham Six in 1991. More recently, there have been the revelations that a Metropolitan police officer most probably killed Blair Peach at Southall in 1979, and South Yorkshire Police conspired to blame Liverpool fans for their deaths at Hillsborough in 1989 in order to deflect attention […]

They were the less pleasant side of capitalism

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] decisive freeing up of market competition in Britain starting in the 1980s. The success was dramatic and to its credit, ‘New Labour’ under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown embraced the new freedoms, tempering their party’s historical Fabian socialist ethos with a fresh emphasis on opportunity. Britain has welcomed foreign investment and […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 […]

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