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Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America
[PDF file]: […] of stout party Eden, Suez and America Simon Matthews Have you heard the one about the Conservative Prime Minister who is disowned by the right-wing of the Tory Party for not seeing through a bombastic and nationalist policy, and disowned by its left-wing for duplicity and generally ridiculed by the wider public? Forget 2017. […]
The Rise of New Labour: Into Office
[PDF file]: […] has issued from British manufacturing as the overvalued pound began putting them out of business. This did not deter Brown. He wanted ‘stability’ and ‘an end to Tory boom and bust’ – phrases you must have heard a hundred times a year. But Brown defined ‘stability’ simply as low inflation – currency instability didn’t […]
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View from the bridge
[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* The British Gladio Back at the s tory of the British Gladio, published in Lobster 81. In this column below I quoted a paragraph from Wayne Thallon’s Devil Incarnate (London: Mainstream, 2007), the memoir […]
The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s
[PDF file]: […] Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British His tory, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, […]