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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[PDF file]: […] other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge of the political – as opposed to ideological – antecedents of Thatcherism is inadequate. On page 222, for example, he writes […]

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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 […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] happen? Some had few doubts: ‘he Prime Minister felt resentment towards his predecessor, Harold Wilson. Soviet espionage was, in Heath’s view, only one of many issues the Labour government had handled badly between 1964 and 1970. Wilson and his colleagues, though well aware of the problem caused by increasing numbers of Soviet spies, had […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] was dismissed by then Conservative leader William Hague for publicly opposing NATO’s bombing of the then Yugoslavia. 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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