How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky at or . 2 3 He is profiled at . and employment . . . .’ (p. 109) His explana tory comments are these: ‘Her government’s economic and exchange rate policies may have brought down inflation, but they took no prisoners as export orders dried up and […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Conspiracies and cover-ups T he past year has not been an easy one for those who view his tory as just one bumbling cock-up after another. The Hillsborough inquiry1 revealed a co-ordinated effort by a large number of public servants not only to deny justice to the families and friends of […]

View from the bridge

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[…] or . Considering his apparent significance, Lyalin got strikingly little coverage – less than a page – in Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky’s KGB: The Inside S tory (1990). 15 5 From what LYALIN has said, there can be little doubt that whilst taking account of the risks of attribution and escalation, the Department […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] subsequent behaviour of Johnson (and Dominic Cummings), it is easy to forget that there are only 365 Conservative MPs. In fact, so loudly has their 2019 vic tory been proclaimed and so quiet have been the opposition parties since that debacle, an acceptance seems to be abroad that either very little can be done […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Institute of 10 11 or 12 13 See, for example, or . 14 4 Economic and Social Research (NIESR) – to quote the subheading of their s tory – ‘While some enjoy a standard of living comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest are now poorer than the poorest parts of […]

Just Boris by Sonia Purnell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] a ferocious temper in private and never forgives a slight. This makes Sonia Purnell’s Just Boris all the more timely. She provides a really quite incredible his tory of privilege, dishonesty, misjudgement and disaster. To be fair, he did spend his gap year in Africa, teaching orphaned children in the slums of Lagos. Only […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Well, here we are. According to a report by the The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) – to quote the subheading of their s tory – ‘While some enjoy a standard of living comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest are now poorer than the poorest parts of […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] and has been little mentioned in the mainstream press that lauded Johnson while hounding the former Derby North MP. It follows several books on the recent his tory of the Labour party, including one by Lee Garratt, a Williamson supporter. I repeat now for transparency’s sake the declaration of personal acquaintance with Williamson I […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Reynolds. ‘One set of Reynolds’ copious notes survived the purge and can be found among RAF files tucked away in obscure parts of the National Archive reposi tory’. (p. 72) While the full report cannot be recovered, we do know from Reynolds that Morton recommended that Britain provide assistance in the training of Sri […]

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