Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] among them, the agricultural botanist Sir Albert Howard, the nutritionist Sir Robert McCarrison, R. G. Stapledon, and the landowners Rolf Gardiner and Lord Northbourne. Lymington had been Conservative MP for Basingstoke from 1929 to 1934, resigning his seat in disgust at parliamentary democracy’s inability to deal with the economic depression. He admired Mussolini; he […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the explanations for his subsequent conduct. Livingstone comes from a respectable working-class Tory family. Until he was 28 he lived at home with his parents who were Conservative Party members and activists. This is not investigated by Hosken, but was previously mentioned by Carvel. Their activism included helping at elections – always a key […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] defeat in the Second World War and the world from Nazi tyranny. This is still very much the dominant viewpoint and forms one of the cornerstones of conservative ideology in post-war Britain. The Churchill myth allowed the Conservative Party, much of which was tainted by appeasement, to confiscate the Second World War and make […]