View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. *new* Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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 […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

Lobster Issue

[…] of goods, panic buying and the disruption of industry. A dock strike did take place, in July 1984, with dockers coming out following the use of non-union labour to unload iron ore at the Immingham dock on the Humber. As a result Thatcher and her colleagues in MISC101 drew up plans for ‘Operation Halberd’, […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. *new* Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]

Back from the brink by Alistair Darling

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 […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] correction cast the Ukrainian penal system in a more positive light. The translated text said that the offence with which Lira was charged was ‘punishable by correctional labour’. But according to Burns: This is a translation error that makes it sound like he’s about to be sent to a gulag. He is not about […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. *new* Getting rid of Corbyn As we approach the next general election with the Labour Party safely in the hands of people who are no threat to any of society’s vested interests, the defenestration of the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is […]

A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’

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 […]

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