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[…] class. There was Nick Timothy railing against what he has had dubbed The Complacent Generation.22 Who is he? Briefly, he was Joint Chief of Staff for PM Theresa May. Timothy blames ‘the complacent generation’ for the UK’s and begins his diatribe thus: ‘The whole structure of our economy – too reliant on financial services, […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: The Brexit impasse Scott Newton The UK government’s approach to Brexit has floundered along ever since Theresa May’s infamous ‘Brexit is Brexit’ comment in July 2016, which sought to foreclose Britain’s negotiating options even before the talks had started. It excluded the possibility of a Norway-style relationship between the European Union (EU) and the […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] leader of a loyalist paramilitary organization called Tara and had two expressed hatreds: the Roman Catholic Church and Communism. On 29 October 2014 the British Home Secretary, Theresa May, wrote to Tam Dalyell, the former Father of the House of Commons, regarding the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) chaired by a former High Court […]

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