Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] of the path-breakers in helping create this new political world. Let us start with the difficulties he encountered doing his research. In early 1979, under the Callaghan Labour government, John Percival Morton, an elderly British counterinsurgency veteran, was sent to advise the Sri Lankan government on how to suppress Tamil rebels. He was ‘an […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] how to meet the standards. The rules about fire were contained in Approved Document B. There were those who issued warnings. As the act neared Royal Assent, Labour peer Lord Sydney Irving tried to sound the alarm: “I hope that when the government come to consider the building regulations and the guidance in the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to […]