Robin Ramsay

Robin Ramsay is editor of <a href="http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/">Lobster</a> magazine.

How Labour embraced the City

The political victory of the City over manufacturing has been a long and cross-party project with significant consequences for our current economic predicament. Robin Ramsay examines the journey from the 70s to the present day.

By Robin Ramsay

/ 18 Dec 2012

Balls' speech to conference: little new, nothing bold

You might say the Shadow Chancellor had an easy job yesterday, persuading the Labour conference and the world outside that he is a better man than Osborne to hold the wheel of the sinking British economy. But while Balls may have succeeded in sounding credible, there was no big Labour vision for t

By Robin Ramsay

/ 2 Oct 2012

In a Lobster's Eye: truth, power and print

The role of the writer in politics is to speak truth to power. But the relationship of politicians to the truth has shifted over the last generation, due in part to the perceived power of the media. So how do the writers who would be speakers of the truth respond?

By Robin Ramsay

/ 29 Jul 2011