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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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)

[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)

[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 […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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) […]

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

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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, […]

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