The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrant-friendly by downscaled 10 and outsourced whites.’ Substitute New Labour for Democrats . . . Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] China. At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrantfriendly by downscaled and outsourced whites.’6 Substitute New Labour for Democrats….. Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men7 is a terrific account of the creation and effects of groupthink among […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.17 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] not to bomb Libya – which, in keeping with the Western concept of democracy, happened two days after the bombing had started – the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband (former Energy Secretary), informed Parliament: ‘We do not seek commercial gain or geopolitical advantage, and we are not intending to occupy Libya or […]

Newsinger on KItson

Lobster Issue

[…] German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly enough, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got eighteen years for his crimes, but was released after four.2 As for occupied Germany, Kitson fondly […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.17 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace 1939-1941

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 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 between 1910 and 1945.8 The question arises, did she make this approach to Bonde as an individual, or was she asked to […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 between 1910 and 1945.8 The question arises, did she make this approach to Bonde as an individual, or was she asked to […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] it should be no surprise that the run-up to crisis was hallmarked by imaginative ways of manufacturing this commodity (gambling), with a view to boosting returns to labour and capital. Risk illusion is no accident; it is there by design. It is in bank managers’ interest to make mirages seem like miracles.’ Even more […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.16 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

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