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 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] referendum, contains almost nothing that we didn’t know already. The familiar story is re-told: the ‘anti’ campaign had little money and, because they were composed of the Labour left and Tory right, had difficulty working together; they didn’t produce a professional-looking campaign and were portrayed by the media as a group of oddballs. Meanwhile […]
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 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 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] still appears on toilets) – but as an adjective for any sort of ‘capitalism’ it is an oxymoron (just like the obverse notion of an ‘aristocracy of labour’, which at least was deliberately ironic). The cult of the ‘gentleman’ in the 19th century was part of a cultural strategy for assimilating manufacturers (presumably with […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] for the Bush way of doing things. Harken Energy was formed in 1973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilise Australia’s Labour government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). A decade later, Harken was sold to a new investment group headed by New York attorney […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of the IRA.” ‘ According to Burns, the paper presented a scenario ‘in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] […]
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 […]