[PDF file]: […] threats to our international competitiveness comes from ill-designed and misguided European legislation imposed not just on our financial services industry, but many other industries too.’ 14 Wither Labour? I wasn’t going to bother adding my 5p’s worth to the discussion about the Labour Party’s future but then I saw the following quote from Ken […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[PDF file]: […] organised by communist conspirators’ (p. xvi). This might seem somewhat perverse as he also considers Britain at this time to have had a ‘socialist economy imposed by Labour governments since 1945’. (p. 15) But there you go. One of the great advantages of the classic Red Scare is that it does not have to […]
[…] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue of Lobster. *new* Huh? Belatedly, I read the Labour Party manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword includes this: ‘How can it be right that in the fifth richest country in the world, people’s living standards are going […]
[…] by and excluded from politics, largely because their voices matter so little for the reasons above. Effectively, we are all living in Italy under Silvio Berlusconi.’ Wither Labour? I wasn’t going to bother adding my 5p’s worth to the discussion about the Labour Party’s future but then I saw the following quote from Ken […]
[PDF file]: Confessions of a Labour loyalist Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire London: Quercus, £20.00, h/b In his extremely useful memoir of the Blair government, Adam Boulton notes that the unlikely figure of Dennis Skinner had been ‘recruited into Blair’s big tent’. He goes on to comment on how Skinner […]
[…] claims against that case have been rebutted by me 4 – and, in much more detail, by David Denton.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he […]
[…] claims against that case have been rebutted by me 4 – and by David Denton, in much more detail.5 If this is of interest, read Denton. *new* Labour and and the Israel lobby Following one of those Internet trails, I came across the new(ish) website of the excellent Matt Taibbi 6 and found he […]
[PDF file]: […] to appear out of the current maelstrom of historic VIP abuse allegations, Smile for the Camera, was highly praised when published in 2014.1 Co-written by Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, and Matthew Baker (who, one suspects, did much of the actual writing), its jacket claims that: ‘it’s about those who knew that abuse […]
[PDF file]: […] was weaker than that of either France or Germany, the two other major players in the ERM. Specifically, inflation was three times greater, interest rates higher, and labour productivity lower. The UK insisted on valuing the pound at a high level when it entered the ERM. Partly as a means of attracting money into […]
