Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] and the Parliamentary Labour left. Labour lost the election in 1970. In came Edward Heath who wanted to turn Britain into West Germany, with membership of the EEC, and a semicorporate state in which the trade unions are embraced by the state in exchange for influence. (Essentially the same thing that Harold Wilson and […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee Simon Matthews The death of sixties broadcaster Simon Dee in August produced a crop of obituaries that commented on his brief period of fame and the claims he subsequently made about his career’s demise. Most of […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[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 […]