Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/ Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially ‘fair’ but […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] there. She never had. But, as a result, reports suggest she has been sentenced to an extra five years.’ With all this damning material by an important Conservative figure so readily The Times 29 August 2017 at or . 2 Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] people (and possibly themselves). The right has interests not ideas. 3. Many on the right are really much further right than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Labour Parties and religious observation by Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism. The ruling class, however, remained located in ‘Consumers England’, where the ‘Southernbased hierarchy’6 reproduced itself through the Conservative Party, the Anglican Church, the public schools and the ancient universities. Its power and influence continued to thrive in the late twentieth century and the first […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] early Cold War. In effect that alliance, exemplified most clearly in the relationship between James Angleton and Jay Lovestone, moved out of the Government and into the conservative movement. Questions of 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] population felt that the Israeli response to the events of 7 October 2023 had gone too far.8 All the same, both the current Labour administration and its Conservative predecessor have generally supported the Israeli Government, albeit tempering this from time to time with statements highly critical of its conduct.9 Following the UN verdict of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] early Cold War. In effect that alliance, exemplified most clearly in the relationship between James Angleton and Jay Lovestone, moved out of the Government and into the conservative movement. Questions of intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra 9 See . to […]

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history by Scott Newton

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and beer in the fridge. Labour’s return to office in 1964 (narrowly) and, more convincingly, after a second election in 1966, saw many continuities with the post-1960 Conservative administrations but also some important differences: ‘Macmillan’s version of social democracy notwithstanding, the Conservative Party and its allies retained both their connections to the City and […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and wider society – could scarcely be higher.’3 (emphasis added) But none of our major political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]

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