View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] . . . I’m also anti-German. Anti-all-Europeans actually Oh yes – if I had my way I’d form my own party far more right wing than Margaret Thatcher I’d bring back National Service, the Scaffold, Reflecting on the who’s who of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, one is struck by how out of his […]

lob61-parish-notes

Lobster Issue

[…] Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit of the covert state operations against Labour governments, the Labour Party and wider left seemed politically […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] that under his particular scheme of Christian charity, ‘(p)eople will not starve to death, although their standard of living may not be sustained’. Falwell singled out Margaret Thatcher, who had just become Prime Minister in Britain, for particular praise. Having thus established his conservative credentials, he went on to address the ‘culture wars’ agenda […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] friend of Israel currently portrayed by Aked. That doesn’t look likely in the present dilapidated state of British democracy. But I felt that about Britain when Margaret Thatcher continued to support apartheid South Africa in the face of growing world outrage. Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly running out of international credit at the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re in for it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. Dallas again 1) a correction In the previous issue, in this column under subhead […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] he would share with me. Some of it I recycled through The Rise of New Labour, and some through ‘Well, how did we get here?’ and ‘ Thatcher against the City’ in this issue. Storming teacups 2.0 I recently read on Stephen Dorril’s website his account of what he sees as his ouster from […]

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