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 […]

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’, […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

Lobster Issue

[…] 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’, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Yet his acolytes still print his nonsensical meanderings.’ 15 And yes, he does stand that up, and in spades. * new * The anti-semitism furore And so Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn duly met with the reps of the major Jewish bodies in the UK and one of the aims of their campaign was […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to over 12 per cent of the workforce by 1986, along with social disorder and bitter class conflict, were still traumatic). Thatcherite reforms sought to weaken organised labour but empower the City through the famous ‘Big Bang’ of 1986, which led to the internationalisation the financial sector – in so doing enabling it to […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] supposedly happened in the 70s and 80s, quoting Callaghan as saying in his memoirs that he lost in 1979 because ‘the tide of history had turned against Labour’. This is self-serving. Callaghan lost because he didn’t go to the polls in the autumn of 1978, when strongly advised to do so. Had he done […]

The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] are known to have enjoyed the largesse of the State Department’s IVLP: Patrick Harvie (Green), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Ross Thomson (Con), Patrick Grady (SNP), Kezia Dugdale ( Labour), Jenny Gilruth (SNP) and Angela Crawley (SNP). Of the seven, only Yousaf is or 2 ‘All the jolly boys and girls’ at 3 or 4 2 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] nothing to see here!’ Also available from the FCO Historians is Origins and Establishment of the Foreign Office Information Research Department, 1946-48. This reveals that, as the Labour government of Clement Attlee was in power at the time: ‘The need to keep the left wing of the Party on side became a factor in […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] of the NuLab story, for it shows that the BlairBrown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read an account of a Labour government casually handing over chunks of the British defence structure to American and […]

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] explaining. This is not a task Calvert and Arbuthnot seriously attempt but is one worth pondering as ever more tales of Tory crony corruption emerge and Starmer’s Labour falls further behind in the polls. I finished their book just as Johnson’s PR, Allegra Stratton, declared that he acted with ‘honesty and integrity’ as London […]

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