Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 66 (Winter 2013)
[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’ […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[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 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]