Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] required to save the country and God has chosen Donald Trump. He has been ‘served up by the hand of Providence’ like ‘Margaret Thatcher, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln’ before. (p. 64) No one should doubt what is at stake. ‘Satan’, he tells his readers, ‘considers taking this nation down to be […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] . 33 hacking of US politics, these are plausible but not verifiable. Yet, accommodating a sphere of influence for a great power is exactly what FDR and Churchill did with Stalin, and every president from Truman to George H. W. Bush did with the Soviet Union. When East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles rose up […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] was strongly anti-appeasement, and had probably been made aware just what his fellow anti-appeasers thought of the book. The demise of Chamberlain, and his replacement by Winston Churchill, also brought a new resolve to the anti-appeasement camp, along with the internment of other Fascists and fellow travellers. Bryant himself narrowly avoided this fate, and […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Hastings attributes this to Britain’s (and the USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ […]
Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] with enthusiasm across the globe. From the start of 1941 onwards, similar pledges were made by democracies, resistance movements and international organisations. The Atlantic Charter, signed by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, included the commitment to secure ‘freedom from fear and want’ for all, along with ‘improved labour standards, economic advancement, and social […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared with this, in 2015 on a turnout of 66%, 11.3 million (24.5% of the […]