ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] rather than dictating to them. Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s. A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. This said that the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s diary is quite unlike the Labour Party equivalents I have read. In those there are policy disagreements but personal abuse is largely absent. I can’t decide if this says something about Duncan, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. This said that the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also 1 The accusation seems to be false. But what does the truth actually matter […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] The Stats that Reveal Just how Widespread Food Poverty Is In the UK’.11 Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, made the same claim in her speech to the Labour Party conference: ‘we are the sixth richest economy in the world’.12 Graham also noted that in 1945, when the Labour Party began its creation of social […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.2 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] times, and certainly pre-1979, the monthly trade figures were a piece of ritualised political theatre that required urgent announcements, elaborate explanations, and, sometimes, finished political careers (usually Labour). This is no longer the case. Even The Times opined that Britain imports too much and its only hope if it wishes to reverse this is […]

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