Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to tolerate […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s son Malcolm. Sarah is the oldest daughter of former Labour leader John Smith. The Robertson family were out in force with leading Labour lights in Scotland for Sarah’s own wedding in 2007 to US-born former soldier […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] on the money supply – monetarism – and its centrality in government economic policy had become adopted by the Thatcher faction of the Conservative Party, apparently by Labour Prime Minister Callaghan2 4 and by sections of the higher media commentariat. In 1980 Friedman presented a series of hour long films with the umbrella title […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] any observers with a decent political memory of the modus operandi of his late father, Alderman Cunningham, also of Felling.1 On hearing the report in June, the Labour Party immediately withdrew the whip from Cunningham, who duly protested his innocence stating that he had suspicions about the interview he attended and had been ‘testing’ […]