Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] used very deliberately. In the period covered by these diaries, Wyatt was Rupert Murdoch’s fixer in London and, in particular, acted as his go-between, first with Margaret Thatcher, and later with John Major. This material is extremely interesting, providing, among other things, an insider’s account of Murdoch’s embrace of Tony Blair and New Labour. […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] UK political landscape. This epic battle was the culmination of a long series of anti-trade union and anti-Labour actions, planned and executed by Nicholas Ridley and Margaret Thatcher. Their ambitious purpose was to weaken, or preferably confine to history, socialist or social democratic values of solidarity and collective action. They were intent upon the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] world as we know it in this country. No doubt books and TV programmes are being prepared. The most striking account of the first part of the Thatcher events is John Hoskyn’s Just In Time: inside the Thatcher revolution (London: Aurum Press, 2000). Hoskyns was an army officer who became a businessman. He is […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] thus: The rise of the state executive at the expense of parliamentary democracy and debate.This began with the economic seminar established by Callaghan but rapidly accelerated under Thatcher. Landmark developments include the decision, made at Cabinet committee level, to replace Polaris with Trident and scrap the GLC and metropolitan councils without first consulting Parliament, […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] its relationship with the Economic league’, in which the assertion ‘must have’ hardly compensates for the lack of evidence; and fourthly in the comments, discussed below, about Thatcher and Joseph. This Wilson chapter, a short rehash of some of the extant information on the plotting and paranoia of the period, contains many omissions – […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the cause of high employment had obviously evaporated. So after 1979 there was indeed ‘no alternative’ to a reassertion of laissez faire, pursued with zeal by Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher sought to recreate the liberal synthesis of free markets, liberty and greatness which (she believed) had characterised Britain in 1851. Yet this could not be […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] corporatism, as it became known, proved difficult to implement, though the economic results of those years in terms of output and employment were infinitely better than the Thatcher experiments which followed them. Under Thatcher, Howe and Lawson, the overseas sector was given everything it had always wanted – no exchange controls, high interest rates […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] as Robin Ramsan. Duncan Campbell is mentioned twice, en passant, but is missed by Bloom’s indexer. The book is in two distinct sections: the 1974-1979 period, before Thatcher took office, and her period at No. 10. The 1974-79 period is the most interesting to me and about which I know most, and it is […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] depths of corruption in English provincial life at the end of the twentieth century. Owen Oyston was the British Labour Party’s biggest private financial contributor in the Thatcher years. The millionaire owner of radio stations and glossy magazines had bailed out both the left-wing News on Sunday newspaper and his beloved Blackpool Football Club […]