[PDF file]: 1976 and all that: the IMF event Robin Ramsay I still buy a daily paper, The Times. One of its regular columnists is Daniel Finkelstein. Lord Finkelstein, as he is now, has been around the upper reaches of the centre (and latterly the centre–right) of British politics for 40 years and is thus one of […]
1976 and all that: the IMF event Robin Ramsay I still buy a daily paper, The Times. One of its regular columnists is Daniel Finkelstein. Lord Finkelstein, as he is now, has been around the upper reaches of the centre (and latterly the centre–right) of British politics for 40 years and is thus one of […]
[PDF file]: Neither Confirm Nor Deny: British Intelligence, Lawless Agent Running and the Suppression of Truth John Ware Newbridge, Ireland: Merrion Press, 2026, £15.00 (approx.) p/b Nick Must Cards on the table, straight away: John Ware is no favourite of Lobster. The quickest of quick ganders at the archive1 reveals an animus that goes back to the […]
1976 and all that: the IMF event Robin Ramsay I still buy a daily paper, The Times. One of its regular columnists is Daniel Finkelstein. Lord Finkelstein, as he is now, has been around the upper reaches of the centre and latterly the centre–right of British politics for 40 years and is thus one of […]
[…] or his substack.24 The lobby is still in there. Google AI and our secret history I have been reformatting Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’, and have thus read it for the first time in years. It details the network of rightwing groups, paramilitary groups, spooks serving and retired, all bound […]
[PDF file]: […] for creating a recession – which they did. Recessions reduce inflation. (Creating more poor people, you reduce demand in the economy, which inhibits price increases.) Like Mrs Thatcher, Peter Jay had been persuaded that there was no alternative. It is not difficult to understand why: in 1976 no-one had ever seen ‘Keynesian’ policies deal […]
[PDF file]: […] to get a handle on Johnson, the book does not seriously attempt to put his government in the context of what has happened to British society since Thatcher and Blair, and more particularly since Cameron, Osborne and Clegg’s austerity regime. What we have seen is a massive aggrandisement of the rich and super rich […]
[PDF file]: […] you really want to change things and you want to get listened to, that’s the place to be.’ 1 On the other hand, Norman Lamont wrote: ‘Margaret Thatcher certainly knew when to disregard market research. In the 1980s, opinion polls regularly showed that voters preferred public spending to tax cuts. Mrs Thatcher insisted on […]
[…] are signs of life in British academic political studies. Google AI and our secret history I have been reformatting Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’, and have thus read it for the first time in years. It details the network of rightwing groups, paramilitary groups, spooks serving and retired, all bound […]
[PDF file]: […] listen to polls and focus groups for their professed views, I find myself unable to suppress the thought: I wonder what they are really thinking? Take Margaret Thatcher: what did she really think she was doing when she fronted the creation of the grossly unequal society we now have? Frank Field MP gave us […]
