The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) became an objective of large-scale business and finance […]

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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.20 One of the books was by his daughter Julia, who showed to my satisfaction […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] Lords but was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of Serbia. In September 2015 Skidelsky endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, writing in The Guardian: Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the […]

Covid-19 and the intellectuals

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] capitalist states. Progressive politicians in these countries have no adequate answers and are reduced to complaining about governmental incompetence and technical glitches. (Just look at the British Labour Party’s response to the situation.) They have not grasped that the system is in need of much more than the equivalent of a good service, MOT […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Lords but was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of Serbia. In September 2015 Skidelsky endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, writing in The Guardian: Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the […]

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