[PDF file]: […] Tories in the Euro elections of 2019, they had no choice. The short-lived Change UK party was also set up as a private company, with an ex- Labour MP as its director. Social media is an area known to be notoriously difficult to regulate, even if – a big if – the tech-giants actually […]
[…] might inhibit short-selling and reducing disproportionate costs for firms. (Emphasis added.) Shorting is gambling on future share prices. Far from encouraging it, you might think that a Labour government would simply ban it. But hey, if the gambling is made easier, we’ll get more of it in London. Economic growth! The writer with no […]
[PDF file]: […] done by propertyless labourers who are obliged to sell their labour-power in exchange for a wage in order to gain access to the means of life and labour itself. In the process of supplying the needs and wants of society, workers are at the same time and inseparably creating profit for those who buy […]
[PDF file]: […] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[…] which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit […]
[…] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[PDF file]: […] – the economy, especially in the South – could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labour. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be long, or 3 4 5 […]
[…] needs a philosophy, a set of principles, an ideology. Indeed Starmer’s need is greater than Major’s was. A Conservative administration benefits from a sense of purpose; a Labour government cannot survive without one. Progressive politics needs a galvanising, or 3 4 5 2 uniting, liberating, crusading temper – the arc of history may be […]
[PDF file]: […] or the Second Red Scare, the purge began well before Senator McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) attained prominence. The expiration of wage and price controls imposed during WWII led to labour demands for wage increases, which met with violent resistance by employers and hence increased industrial action by unions. Employer organisations combined to advocate strong anti-union legislation, […]
