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Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century Alwyn Turner London: Profile Books, 2021, £20, h/b Dan Atkinson On March 20 1976, in the immediate wake of Harold Wilson’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Central Council about ‘a little piece of advice’ she had given him […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the coming ‘Second Civil War’. Here in the Redoubt an authoritarian theocracy will be established after the great cataclysm. Among the adherents of this movement is Doug Wilson, who founded Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has its own day school, college and a media centre that spreads 8 the message. Wilson has […]

The two Goulds

Lobster Issue

[…] some more detail. The back story W ithout seeking to confront the overseas lobby – the City– Bank of England–Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 and 1979 tried to create an alliance of domestic interests – unions, state and employers – to manage the domestic […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

Lobster Issue

[…] the coming ‘Second Civil War’. Here in the Redoubt an authoritarian theocracy will be established after the great cataclysm. Among the adherents of this movement is Doug Wilson, who founded Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has its own day school, college and a media centre that spreads 8 the message. Wilson has […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: Romeo Spy John Alexander Symonds This is a free download at . O n what basis can one review a book? I wonder, because I haven’t read this properly: I’ve skimmed it and noted some sections. Much of it is territory I am not competent in and I have little idea how one would try […]

The Two Goulds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Here is some more detail. The back story Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 and 1979 tried to create an alliance of domestic interests – unions, state and employers – to manage the domestic […]

Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Great Britain (CPGB).12 Did the CPGB have such a role? Academic research and comments by participants suggest that a major part in the frustration of the Castle- Wilson proposals was indeed played by the The Liaison Committee for I discussed how Heath was conned by the bankers into introducing the Competition and Credit Control […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] on that front. At the recent Labour Party conference, delegates were told that circumstances were so bad his government would have to do as much as Attlee, Wilson and Blair combined over a ten-year period. Which shows commendable realism. Consider though the advantages that each of those had: Attlee, Prime Minister of a country […]

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