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 […]

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 […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] USA in the 1930s. What becomes clear is that, while sections of the US capitalist class had no problem with using some of these groups against the labour movement, they never had any intention of subordinating themselves to them. A strong fascist state, indeed a strong domestic state of any description, was never and […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] 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 […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Freedom Association – whose membership consists entirely of far-right Tories (such as the loveable Christopher Chope) and UKIP figures – attacked the BBC for ‘plotting a Labour victory’ in order to protect its licence fee arrangements.33 Naturally, this piece was long on rhetoric and short on details of how the Corporation (which towers […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] process which involves ‘commissions’ is no big problem for business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

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[PDF file]: […] had no problem with this despite being well aware of how the Japanese had cruelly mistreated POWs. It is worth noting that by now there was a Labour government in London, and it authorised the rearming and use of Japanese troops in Vietnam and Indonesia as well as in Laos! The fighting in Indonesia, […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] million inhabitants of the UK – and its fiscal policy reflected this: inheriting a standard rate of income tax of 9 shillings in the pound (45%) from Labour in 1951, Butler immediately increased this to its highest ever peace time level of 9 shillings and 6 pence (47.5%) a year later, also allowing at […]

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