A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the six/nine/ten/twelve member-states failed to sign up to everything together. Indeed, Major’s opt-outs were the template for the four subsequent Denmark-specific optouts that persuaded the Danes to vote ‘Yes’ a second time round). Two, the Danish ‘No’ spooked the currency markets, which smelled weakness in terms of ERM members’ commitment to stick to the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of sources; and that this is […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] are still in charge of the party. This became open when Mrs May refused to answer the question put to her by Iain Dale: ‘How would you vote now if there was a referendum on leaving the EU?’68 Meanwhile, at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour’s policy would be to guarantee […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of sources; and that this is […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] evidence from Arizona, New York, and California suggests more than 500,000 registrations were tampered with or improperly handled….hundreds of thousands of voters were denied the right to vote or were forced to vote provisionally. A quarter million or more provisional or affidavit Democratic ballots were not counted. Available evidence also suggests that the vast […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Corcoran and Sluizer did eventually make Ireland (1966) for the Irish government. Other than a possible curiosity about visiting his ancestral homeland, and shoring up the Irish vote back home by doing so, why was Kennedy coming? The files held at the Irish State Archives say he was interested in visiting Shannon Airport industrial […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cola. The underlying assumption of focus group research is that what (sometimes) works for consumer markets must be transferable to the political market place, since casting a vote is a matter of individual choice, like having a preference for a soft drink. Political focus groups are thus an important part of turning politics into […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti-Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most gifted […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were met, with the exception of annual Parliaments, the process took decades. It was not until 1914 that all males over 21 won 4 the right to vote in general elections. This process of painstaking gradual reform over the best part of seven decades, also visible in the recognition of trade union rights, ensured […]

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