Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Farage and then by pro-Brexit Tories. Creagh’s pre-2019 near-neighbour in Don Valley, Caroline Flint, had seen the writing on the wall, but her efforts to support a Theresa May ‘soft Brexit deal’ came too late to save her. She tells Payne: ‘We failed to understand people’s concerns about Europe and about immigration. They voiced their […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show Scott Newton Zachary Carter’s quite excellent recent biography of the economist J. M. Keynes1 makes a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after […]

Newton on Keynes

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Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show Scott Newton Zachary Taylor’s quite excellent recent biography of the economist J. M. Keynes1 makes a convincing case that the economist was the crucial figure in the creation of British social democracy. Starting in the early twentieth century as an Asquithian new Liberal, he moved after […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] now. And if he hasn’t grasped this fundamental point, why should we take him seriously? Then there was Nick Timothy, former chief of staff to Tory PM Theresa May. Trying to big-up the outgoing Conservative Party’s economic record, he asserted: Inflation, borrowing and unemployment are all lower than when Labour last left office. Debt is […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] course. We must find a new model’ at . See also his more recent essay at . Nick Timothy was joint chief of staff for Prime Minister Theresa May. 39 40 Reported in The Times on 25 May. 13 called Does Truth Matter?41 On the front cover it states: Many untrue statements were made about […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK Simon Matthews It’s a good job that the requirements for membership of the G7 are vague. The organisation started in March 1973 as the G5 with a decision to hold regular, informal meetings of the finance ministers and officials of the US, UK, West Germany, […]

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