The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] out of print’. Secondhand copies can be found on AbeBooks, Thriftbooks and eBay 25 26 or 27 9 money and high-level contacts. Had we access to internal Labour Party emails, I’m sure a similarly intricate picture could be produced – though hopefully there would be no use of fake social media accounts. Of the […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Harold Macmillan, yet he made less impression than any of those figures even at the time.’ A fair point, although his elevation to the premiership certainly had Labour rattled, rightly as it turned out on election night two years later. ‘The Conservatives have found their Attlee,’ said Lord (Douglas) Jay at the time in […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] with which to beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] a far greater scandal than ‘Hackgate’, but it goes virtually unremarked. Indeed, it looks as if Murdoch is actually succeeding in the old game of playing the Labour and Conservative parties off against each other. Not only has the Murdoch press given Cameron a public warning, but the Sun also made clear that it […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government and the Foreign Office made serious attempts, without success, to acquire […]

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] EEC during the 1975 referendum and supported the so-called Alternative Economic Strategy. This was developed to oppose the monetary orthodoxy that was used to first hobble the Labour Government of the 1970s and then to crucify the UK economy when Margaret Thatcher gave the UK monetarism at full throttle. Although he wrote articles from […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] more academic discussion of the CPGB-Moscow relationship, but which does not cover the ‘Moscow gold’, see ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain and Moscow’, Stephen Hopkins, in Labour History History Review, Vol 57, No. 3, Winter 1992. 1 For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because 8 9 10 11 they will do nothing;1 2 and the secret state no longer seems as […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] would be pulped; but it wasn’t. Some years later I received an anonymous phone call. A middle aged man with an RP accent told me that the Labour Party had contacted the publisher of PCP and offered to pay to suppress the book. How thrilling! Then I asked how much was offered: £5000. Which […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because they 8 9 10 11 5 Brain waves Three significant pieces warning us about the dangers of […]

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