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... its support for war. This was a newspaper which had historically positioned itself on the left of centre and had taken some pride in its willingness to swim against the mainstream. Most famously The Observer had stood out against the British invasion of Suez in 1956, despite courting the scorn of the government and the loss of some of its more conservative readers and advertisers. And yet this newspaper which had thrived on scepticism was seduced into accepting unproven and extravagant claims; this flagship of the left was towed along in the wake of a determinedly right-wing American government; on this crucial, long-running story, the essential role of journalism, to tell the truth, was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-30.htm
... . Why would they differ? Both groups of politicians are pro-American, pro-Israeli, pro-globalisation, pro-free market, pro-nuclear, pro-EU and pro-destroying the public sector. The only significant difference is that the Cameroons are linked to a different cluster of corporate sponsors. The NuLab and Conservative parties' use of PR is discussed but that isn't the meat of those chapters. This is the best introduction to real power politics in this society that I have read. Anyone who finds Lobster interesting will find this congenial and stimulating. Large chunks of this book would sit very comfortably in these pages and many themes which have appeared ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-49.htm
... -Americanism betrays the left' he argued that the left's critique 'bends all facts to fit the ideo-logical line'. ( [9 ] ) All facts? So what honest, ethical policy would he lead Labour into? 'It is a fairly radical policy and it comes close to some aspects of what has become known as Neo Conservative politics in the United States -- the proposal of a new kind of interventionism which has been called liberal interventionism, or in some places neo-imperialism. ' ( [10] ) His principle role has been to support those who have sold the UK into this Eva Braun-like marriage to the US administration's unreal politick. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-43.htm
... thus - hey presto! - we will be on the way to having a revolutionary working class The British Left had its show-down with the British state and Thatcherism in 1984/5 and lost. (Beckett suggests that the CPGB leadership did not want this show-down.) After 1974 and the Saltley depot event, the Conservative Party and the British state prepared not to be defeated ever again: the miners and the British Left in general did nothing. Like other generals before him, Arthur Scargill tried to re-fight his last battle. Miners in shirt-sleeves faced a paramilitary police force which had been training for nearly a decade. As Roger Windsor ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-08.htm
... -earners in families and then found out that the big super-markets - 'a complex monopoly', in his words; a cartel in anyone else's - are screwing the food producers. At one point Nott describes himself as 'a rebel by nature'. Let's see: from public school to Cambridge University, into the City and the Conservative Party, back to the City and thence, after a brief, eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman - that kind of rebel! Notes 14 There is nothing which throws light on the report in The Times of 2 April 2002 that Lord Carrington the Foreign Secretary had ignored reports ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-45a.htm
... the Guardian's long-standing pro-American stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non-communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America's most important overseas military base, that meant the Guardian. The issue of the Guardian's pro-American position (against that of most of its readers, I would guess) arises ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 20 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-view-bridge.pdf
... that the advocates of 'roll-back' would have been lobbing atom bombs around with reckless abandon by the time of the Korean War. There was no Soviet grand plan There was no Soviet grand plan for the invasion of Britain and world domination; and nothing in Mitrokhin's packet of revelations proves that there was. Even if the ultra-conservative Soviet bureaucracy had wanted to conquer the world, the creaking and sclerotic Soviet system was hardly up to it. The Cold War was never as simple as 'freedom versus tyranny' or 'good versus evil'. The supposed 'moral superiority' of the West is a myth. The Western powers showed no compunction about supporting tyrannical and murderous dictatorships ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-10.htm
... Occasionally another grouping, the'Radical Right', (sometimes the radical right, without the capital letters) emerges in his text. These appear to be the same people. Take this section on page 108: 'The unexpected breakthrough for the long-beleaguered diehards came with the recruitment of Keith Joseph to their cause. Immediately after the Conservatives' first electoral defeat of 1974 Joseph, a senior shadow cabinet minister, had broken ranks and started to openly criticise the social democratic consensus. Over the following year Joseph and Margaret Thatcher, a junior shadow cabinet colleague, became increasingly vocal supporters of the Economic League's old fashioned and radical brand of unrepentant laissez faire capitalism... ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-15.htm
... full-time political commentators lack. He knew Brown in student days, he knows Scotland, he understands economics, and he has lived and taught abroad. He also writes well: 'What ended in the slump of 2008-9 was a decade of increasingly frenzied profit-taking in a metropolitan financial sector run out of control. The Conservative political elite had migrated to it as dealers, executives and corporate lawyers, and no longer supported the elite plus middle-class "public servant" consensus Schumpeter had praised in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942). It could expand the numbers involved, square its own interests, and exit into relative security. 'Mastering the system ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-187.pdf
... an index but no documentation. However there are no obvious errors that I can see; the author knows the material and presents it clearly and simply. As for 'Morningside Mata Haris', Morningside is an upper-crust area in Edinburgh famous in Scotland, any way for having a distinctive accent, posh Edinburgh. Malcolm Rifkind, erstwhile Conservative Foreign Minister, is an example of it. Elma Dangerfield and the Duchess of Atholl don't seem to have had much to do with Morningside and were about as far from being Mata Haris as one could imagine. But when did reality get in the way of a publisher's idea of a catchy title? Notes [19] My first ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-42.htm
