Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] muddling through’. But Butskellism wasn’t ‘simply muddling through’. The term came from merging the name of Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler with that of Labour Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell and was coined in the mid 1950s, when there was a considerable consensus across the major political parties in the UK about how […]

92 Bridge copy

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[…] the pulsed microwave technology that could potentially cause Havana Syndrome symptoms, sources say. Stonehouse In Lobster 82 I reviewed two books about the late John Stonehouse, the Labour MP and Minister, who famously faked his death and went to Australia.10 One of the books was by his daughter Julia, who showed to my satisfaction […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] but as ‘Laura Corbyn’. – Bower frequently accuses Corbyn of being a Trotskyite. Elsewhere he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] but as ‘Laura Corbyn’. – Bower frequently accuses Corbyn of being a Trotskyite. Elsewhere he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you […]

Going South: why Britain will have a third world economy by 2014 by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] oppositionist stance as his opportunity to destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold Wilson in any future leadership contest within the Labour Party. It soon becomes clear that Callaghan and the trade unions have mobilised a majority against Castle and Wilson. Although considering In Place of Strife to […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] syndrome, and they opted for one of two monolithic parties, a certain rough justice prevailed.2 However, since 1970 (Edward Heath – 46% of the votes cast) neither Labour nor Conservatives have polled above 45% of the votes cast in a general election. Thatcher didn’t get above 44%, Blair peaked at 43% and 1 This […]

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[…] Pursuing this, it is getting into bed with the big tech companies. Lucas Amin and Peter Geoghegan noted: New figures obtained by Democracy for Sale reveal that Labour ministers and senior civil servants met with tech industry executives and lobbyists an average of six times a week during the government’s first six months in […]

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[…] Pursuing this, it is getting into bed with the big tech companies. Lucas Amin and Peter Geoghegan noted: New figures obtained by Democracy for Sale reveal that Labour ministers and senior civil servants met with tech industry executives and lobbyists an average of six times a week during the government’s first six months in […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] much of all this was known to Prince Bandar’s good friend in the Oval Office, and when. Smith’s myths The campaign to elect Owen Smith MP as Labour Party leader has been making claims that do not accord with verifiable facts, but the media are reporting them unquestioningly. Chief among these is the claim […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] – or perhaps because of – the Kagame regime’s wholly justified reputation for repression and murder. The grim reality is that both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition are very much in bed with the Kagame regime, and have been for many years now. Indeed the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in […]

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