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 […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] The point was not lost on Roosevelt and the informal coalition of progressives, Keynesians, socialists, social-democrats (‘liberals’ in US political discourse), communists, left-wing populists, farmers and organised labour which supported his administration. They were committed to a ‘New Deal’ for the American people, a break from the old politics which had generally avoided (outside […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] UK? Yes, though the little Harding tells us is not as revealing as it might be: a leading US consultant has said he was working for the Labour party, courtesy of Patricia Hewitt, long before the well-known 1990s assistance from the Clintonites (this is still supposed to be a secret1 2). This influence has […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] not the researchers steered away from an hypothesis which could only benefit the Republicans. 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 […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become overwhelming. This was not the only factor though. Orwell was a strong supporter of the Labour government right up until his death. He was very critical of it for not being radical enough, arguing on one occasion that a United Socialist States […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] – but it was in the blood. His view of most English politicians was highly negative – ‘squeamish’ and ‘old women’ are two characteristic descriptions – especially Labour ministers of course, who ‘with less of a feeling of the “White Man’s Burden” on their shoulders’ (that’s Edwards) were quite happy to begin the ‘scuttle’, […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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

[…] 9 25 their oil and gas taps. That would have got their attention PDQ. 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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart espouses many soft-left (for a Conservative) […]

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