The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]

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Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson was seen as the front runner, with Michael Gove as his ‘dream […]

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[…] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

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