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Lobster Issue

[…] Israeli lobby money in the story.2 1 In Lobster 88, in this column under subhead Blair and Israel, I wrote ‘In short, the Starmer-led faction of the Labour Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction thirty years ago’. See also . 2 1 While on […]

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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Israeli lobby money in the story.2 1 In Lobster 88, in this column under subhead Blair and Israel, I wrote ‘In short, the Starmer-led faction of the Labour Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction thirty years ago’. See also . 2 1 While on […]

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 […]

The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] was that the City asked for lighter and lighter supervision – and boy, did it get it. It was part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend […]

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 […]

View from 92

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] 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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