Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] as Chief Secretary of the Treasury in 2010, left the ‘no money left’ note to his successor,1 0 words that have helped Chancellor George Osborne and the Conservative party to frame the assault on Labour’s economic record ever since. Draper’s alma mater, the University of Manchester, was the setting for another electoral defeat for […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] instead enlisted, serving as an officer in Kenya and Somaliland, until he was invalided out in 1943. His next step was to go and work for the conservative magazine Truth, edited by Collin Brooks, which became a convenient vehicle for his anti-Semitism. As late as 1947, he was 3 planning to write a book […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] with the Popular Front – or even with communism – but had since moved to the right. Denis Healey is an obvious example. The government actually rejected Conservative attempts to establish an Un-British Activities Committee in the House of Commons, almost certainly because they were aware that it would be used to smear the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] turned on Cameron’s government with a vengeance. On 25 March the Sunday Times broke the ‘cash for access’ story with accompanying video, forcing the resignation of the Conservative Party’s cotreasurer, the appropriately named Peter Cruddas. This was accompanied by a systematic savaging of George Osborne’s budget in the Sun. It was condemned as a […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Mayor election in which Livingstone is, again, the Labour candidate. We learn that his uncle, also confusingly named Kenneth Livingstone, was a very active member of the Conservative party in Streatham and later joined the National Front. We are also told that Livingstone agreed to father children by two female members of the Labour […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Benny Hill and Benito Mussolini: completely without principles, wholly irresponsible and unfit for any public office. However, as we know, the incredible has happened and a desperate Conservative Party has actually installed him as Prime Minister! Thus, the book is now worth some critical attention – not for anything it has to say about […]