The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] about them. This is not the first attempt by Sanderson to get his story out. He began while still in prison in 1991, working with the Stockton Labour MP Frank Cook and academic Peter Smith.4 They both died before the job was done. Then he worked with a TV producer, a Cook Report alumnus, […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: How New Labour stopped listening to the voter and why we need a new politics Deborah Mattinson London: Biteback, 2010, £17.99 People, Politics and Pressure Groups: Memoirs of a lobbyist Arthur Butler Hove: Picnic Publishing, £12.99, 2010 Tom Easton Deborah Mattinson is just one of the many early enthusiasts for what became New Labour […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive Liberal Party general election manifestos after 1929 and became the predominant (though not the only) politico-economic discourse in the Labour Party from 1935 until 1997. It went into eclipse during the era of ‘New Labour’ (barring a brief revival in 2008-10) but was rehabilitated during the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

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[…] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] on the centre-left. This was reflected in successive Liberal Party general election manifestos after 1929 and became the predominant (though not the only) politico-economic discourse in the Labour Party from 1935 until 1997. It went into eclipse during the era of ‘New Labour’ (barring a brief revival in 2008-10) but was rehabilitated during the […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is lower than in the 1950s, and lower than in countries including France, Italy and the United States. The economy is growing.3 […]

View from

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[…] testimonies, opinion polls showing public disgust. My own December 2019 report – “The Jew who laughed last at Corbyn” – followed an Orthodox candidate who beat the Labour leader in his own district and embodied the backlash. The aim was ruthless and explicit: never let voters forget the word antisemitism.6 The ‘London playbook’ indeed. […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 40 years and is thus one of the architects of the disastrous mess the UK is in. In his column of 17 April, ‘Truss’s excuse sounds like Labour in 1976’,1 he considered Liz Truss’s claims that her economic policies were undermined by unelected officials, notably in the Office for Budget Responsibility. He commented: ‘Anyone […]

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