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[…] interviewed the leaders of each of the UK’s major political parties together with their deputies and foreign policy spokesmen. All of them (Conservative, Liberal National, Liberal and Labour) were open to the idea of peace talks; but, equally, all of them agreed that Hitler was untrustworthy and that there was no alternative other than […]

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] for twelve hours a day. As we now know, that allowed Epstein to continue his assaults on young girls. Acosta went on to be Trump’s Secretary of Labour. Kendzior is incredulous that the allegation that Trump raped a thirteen year old girl who had been ‘forced to work’ for Epstein in 1994 was pretty […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] was the man who had famously been exposed as not having any idea of the level of JobSeekers Allowance at the hustings during the campaign for the Labour Party leadership! And once he had lost that election decided to devote himself to making money, lots of money. In 2011-2012, he earned a modest £446,000 […]

Vassal State: How America Runs Britain by Angus Hanton

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] State: How America Runs Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] War’ meant for anyone except the white middle-class and the ruling elite, the suppression of demands for peacetime economic justice. As Tony Benn, the recently deceased UK Labour politician, once said: after the war people asked, if we could organise fullemployment for war, why couldn’t we organise fullemployment for peace?4 This question was answered […]

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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the back of the Mini which had rescued him when his official car broke down,23 George Brown was the premier comic political figure of his time. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell suddenly died in 1963, George Brown was widely expected to be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his […]

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