Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] also writes well: ‘What ended in the slump of 2008-9 was a decade of increasingly frenzied profit-taking in a metropolitan financial sector run out of control. The Conservative political elite had migrated to it as dealers, executives and corporate lawyers, and no longer supported the elite plus middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised […]

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[…] destroying Jeremy Corbyn. *new* The MLK files I asked Google why the Trump administration had released the official files on 5 6 The sole exception is former Conservative minister Alan Duncan, whose 2021 memoir begins with complaints about that lobby. See the review by John Booth at or . 7 3 the assassination of […]

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] 2003 Iraq invasion is fatally flawed by a stress on what he terms ‘neoconism’ – the assigning of a primary causative role to the dominance of neo- conservative ideologues and ideology in the 2000 Bush administration. To stack this up, Harvey makes use of counterfactual theory, specifically, the wholly believable counterfactual of a Gore/Leiberman […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] with the White House. He introduced Hunt to Hughes’s security Magruder testimony, SWH (see note 14) Book 2, pp. 789-90. The Republicans had heard a rumor from conservative columnist Kevin Phillips that O’Brien or the DNC were taking kickbacks from convention vendors. (Magruder pp. 190-191). Confirmation could provide derogatory material with which to silence […]

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[…] also writes well: ‘What ended in the slump of 2008-9 was a decade of increasingly frenzied profit-taking in a metropolitan financial sector run out of control. The Conservative political elite had migrated to it as dealers, executives and corporate lawyers, and no longer supported the elite plus middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] International.1 1 Lord Maginnis of Drumglass is Ken Maginnis, former Ulster Unionist 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 […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared to allow social liberal positions); and how […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]

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