Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] how to meet the standards. The rules about fire were contained in Approved Document B. There were those who issued warnings. As the act neared Royal Assent, Labour peer Lord Sydney Irving tried to sound the alarm: “I hope that when the government come to consider the building regulations and the guidance in the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] evening, I told him that nationalization was looking increasingly likely…..like me could see the political watershed we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee in 1991 was Bill Clinton. One can see the value to them of these people […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] largely monopolised by British producers; full mobilisation of all the nation’s military and industrial resources for war would both necessitate economic planning and create a demand for labour which would swing the balance of power on the factory floor in favour of the trade unions. At home, Britain would be transformed into a semi-socialist […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Foot was also living rent free in a cottage on Beaverbrook’s Cherkley estate. Foot thought all this showed what a nice chap the reactionary and ferociously anti- Labour Beaverbrook was. But its more likely was that he saw the Labour Left as worth covertly supporting because it might help divide the Labour Party in […]