South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was an entirely legal meeting of a local branch of a mainstream political party. In HN298’s ‘First Witness Statement’ he said of his penetration of the Young Liberal branch: ‘I did not discuss taking up this post with my managers beforehand.’ He then goes straight on to claim ‘I do not remember them saying […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this package is really about: the lack of judgment by CSIS, their dirty tricks, harassment and above all, their denial of basic justice to innocent Canadians. The Liberal Party of Canada is aware of this information, but according to a letter from Michael Ignatieff’s office (copied to the Evidence directory), the Liberals are not […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (My emphasis). Do Danczuk and Baker get close to proving this? The authors provide Smith’s background – though not in detail. He was Chairman of the Rochdale Liberal Party in 1949, joined Labour and got elected as a local councillor in 1952. Thereafter he became a fairly typical example of the northern ‘boss politician’. […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as a doctor he purchased a practice (these were pre-NHS days) in the working class district of Thornton Heath near Croydon. He stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate unsuccessfully on two occasions (once as an unofficial Liberal candidate), later switched to the Conservatives and was elected MP for Carlisle in 1954, a seat […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the Pope’s recent encyclical letter, Fratelli Tutti. ‘168. The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neo liberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes. Neoliberalism simply reproduces itself by resorting to the magic theories […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Co-operation Organisation (SCO). Its vision of commerce promoting mutual prosperity and development, leading to a more prosperous and co-operative global community, is one that the great Victorian liberal Richard Cobden would have recognised. Indeed China’s external economic expansion, with its emphasis not only on trade but investment and the construction of port, transport and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] gullibility of the politicians who believed what they were told). This is downloadable as a PDF file and should be read.12 Conspiracy theorist bashing The appointment of Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, to a position as a junior minister at the Home Office produced outbursts of conspiracy theorist-bashing from two columnists at the Daily […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and reading the private cables of antiwar leaders. Before long, the FBI was tapping the phones of key Republican leaders as well.1 9 Even the President’s passionately liberal wife, Eleanor, came under Hoover’s close scrutiny. FBI informants kept the bureau apprised of her many social and political associates 18 Flynt and Eisenbach, One Nation […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] few advisors, and seemed resistant to reaching out beyond their small inner circle.’ What does this sound like? It sounds like NuLab. And it sounds like the Liberal Democrats. All three major parties are now in the grip of little cliques with predictable consequences: as the parties’ members are not of interest or value […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the major political parties, leaving no settled institutional outlet for opposition or the construction of alternative policies and strategies. The most telling example of this was the Liberal performance last year: having gone into the General Election on a Keynesian politicoeconomic platform some way to the left of the other two major parties, they […]

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