Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] of boxes. First, it does not shrink from acknowledging the existence of a conspiracy working against the interests of the ordinary folk. That it centres on neo- liberal economic theories and the money of – amongst others – the Koch brothers and the Mont Pelerin Society will come as no surprise to readers of […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] activities, such as 1 See The Daily Telegraph 30 August 2009 and others the same day. Page 4 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 ‘modernising’ its economy on more liberal lines than the post1945 political consensus had hitherto indicated. With his military service complete Dee had various occupations in the more fashionable areas of London, including […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] The Times Guide to the Election 1970. South and Shoreditch after its sitting Labour MP Ron Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).7 With the SDP/ Liberal Alliance polling 50% at this point (and leading the polls continuously from October 1981 to April 1982 during which period Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins won […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the appeasement of Germany and on economic policy. Surveying the wreckage of traditional British industries, Macmillan had urged politicians, industrialists and investors to abandon their commitment to liberal economics and pursue not self-interest but a “national economic policy”, their actions guided by a State planning structure capable of taking a synoptic view.’ As ‘Supermac’ […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] to get Trump in line was a briefing at the Pentagon on 20 July 2017. Mattis, Tillerson and Cohn all gave carefully prepared presentations celebrating ‘the post-war, liberal, international rules-based order’ and how much the United States had got out of it. (p. 9) This meeting was, Bergen writes, ‘one of the most important […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] prime minister his attitudes may also be those of the rest of the Russian leadership. Centrally they are: an unselfconscious patriotism which is now rare in Western liberal democracies, and shame about the last century of Russian history. With the exception of the Great Patriotic War, everything since 1917 is written off as a […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] combined Conservative and UKIP vote) not voting at all. Despite this the UK system delivered Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these […]