The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] oil guys their view of the Hunt family being involved in JFK’s death. After much laughter my host said, “Hell, half of Dallas was in on it!”’ Labour and anti-semitism George Monbiot has entered the debate about Labour and anti-semitism. In an essay in the Guardian he commented on the possible legal costs (£millions) […]

Blair and Israel

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 […]

Apocryphylia

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’ […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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[…] COLD WAR DECEPTIONS: The Asia Foundation and the CIA.25 Among the Asia Foundation’s members, you may recall, was Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, who sacked Labour prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975. This extract is from p. 300 of Christopher Andrew and Vasili Metrokhin, The KGB in Europe and the […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] dominant social groups in these regions tended to be provincial industrialists and the organised working class. Politics was usually dominated by the Liberal and (after 1918) the Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] true under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s management of UK plc. Eighteen years out of power had made these jokers so paranoid about being viewed as ‘old Labour’ that every time Cityboys and entrepreneurs asked for ‘business-friendly’ reforms they rolled over and allowed tax and regulatory changes that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] broke up as it lost state support in the era of detente in the 1970s. In the context of a counter-movement against detente, former intelligence officers and labour activists attempted to develop an epistemic community around a theory of intelligence that would provide a basis for renewed state support for political warfare. This theory […]

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