Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] Downing Street briefing. But no, it’s Sir Oswald Mosley, in Malmo, in 1951. How ironic that his son, Max Mosley, with Bernie Ecclestone, should have funded New Labour; and how stupid that Giddens, and the other New Labour theorists, should have used such badly stained terminology. Secondly, what emerges is the extent of the […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] its effect, sterling’s release from a deflationary straightjacket blunted the effects of the early nineties recession and set the British economy onto the road of which New Labour is now so proud. The current government front bench were, of course, enthusiastic supporters of British entry into the ERM in 1990, and at the overvalued […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] of its implicit messages was that railways should be run as a single unitary authority; but John Major knew better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in opposition saying he wanted to see ‘a publicly accountable, […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] emphases are mine. In the second line of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] on ‘full spectrum dominance’. As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses of […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s a media asset of the British Army, and Ryder portrays King as the man who showed the Labour Government in 1974 that the Ulster Workers’ Council general strike could not be resisted. Another perspective would put King in charge while the British Army and […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed for ten […]