Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

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[…] correspondence with political figures across Europe, pursuing these interests. She was a friend of Lord Beveridge, and her brother, Richard Denman, sat in Parliament as a Liberal, Labour and National Labour MP See John Lukacs, The Last European War (1976) pp. 59 and 66. 4 6 between 1910 and 1945.7 The question arises, did […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it.’ See . 6 An excellent summary of how this tactic is used was provided by Jess Phillips ( Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley) in the Huffington Post. See or . 7 Time magazine listed a top 10 of those failures at 8 appetite for litigation […]

The Conversation

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[PDF file]: […] a landslide.1 I don’t often find myself in agreement with former Murdoch hack Andrew Neil, but the above paragraph is hard to disagree with. The message the Labour Party leader wishes to disseminate is that ‘Labour is open for business’ and is the party of business. To this end Keir Starmer might earn for […]

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ by Tom Griffin, et al

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[PDF file]: […] the role of William Shawcross as chairman of the Charity Commission and the Henry Jackson Society’s (HJS) sources of funding. They point out that a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and he underplays the extent to which some of the participants in the drama, notably Pincher and D-notice Committee secretary Lohan, were motivated by hatred of the Labour government. Prime Minister Wilson knew this, which explains his (failed, disastrous) attempt to tackle them head-on. And it really wasn’t, as he has it, ‘the British […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There is also the determination of retired generals and politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties to cover up the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Without any shame whatsoever, the war was portrayed as being about the protection and extension […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

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[PDF file]: […] SDP in the 1980s. In that latter period he also helped set up Heritage’s London operation, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, while authoring anti- Labour material here alongside his old acquaintance Brian Crozier and 136 Winter 2010 in the United States with Roy Godson (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] representative roles and now see themselves as professional agents of the state who ally themselves with corporate fellow professionals. Starmer’s plan to go back to the Parliamentary Labour Party electing the party leader demonstrates this tendency. 11 12 13 See . Martin Parker, Against Management: Organization in the age of Managerialism (Cambridge: Polity, 2002) […]

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