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 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] whether Mills is guilty or not of any criminal offence(s). Apart from his testimony in British and Italian courts, his sole public statements have a familiar New Labour ring: I have done nothing wrong. This is something of a New Labour mantra. David Blunkett used precisely the same formula in his various recent post-resignation […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] is professionally produced, with full-colour illustrations, lots of photographs, and all the industry-standard lay-out techniques. Issue 3 is 40 pages, with essays on aspects of Maastricht, New Labour and Blairism’s impact (or lack of it) on the EU, the MIA proposals, Brian Burkitt of Bradford University on the economics of EMU; as well as […]
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 27 (1994) £££
[…] July, 1993) from Cavendish pointing out that he, that is Cavendish, was among the founders of the Democratic Party of Britain in the 1960s with disillusioned former Labour MP Desmond Donnelly — long before Crozier and others formed the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s. Cavendish notes in his letter that the Democratic Prty […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that nothing has changed – because nothing could change. He treats the claims that Labour is running […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] of small items had been stolen from him at the address. In Martin Short’s Inside the Brotherhood (1989) Ken Livingstone is quoted as stating that half the Labour local councillors in some parts of London when he joined the Labour Party were Freemasons. He had no proof of this and later declined to provide […]
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 […]
