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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]