Consultants Challen

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[…] apologised to civil servants for his denigration of them but: One senior government source said: ‘Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall. But I blame him and the Conservative Party for 14 years of low pay, bad leadership and demoralisation which means we don’t have the right people in the right places.’7 How, one wonders, […]

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[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] journalistic accounts of the Trump years, If Only They Didn’t Speak English and A Year at the Circus.1 These two resolutely mediocre volumes show how the BBC’s conservative even-handedness makes it unable to deal seriously with the likes of Trump and the MAGA movement. What of UnPresidented? This takes the form of a diary […]

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[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and […]

The rule of the tech lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] not as warnings but as goals to be achieved’: See Alejandra Lucia, Silicon Valley Fascism (independently published, 2025), pp. 17-18. William Rees-Mogg was a pillar of the Conservative establishment in Britain, a former editor of The Times, chairman of the Arts Council and vice-chairman of the BBC’s Board of Governors. 6 6 A good […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] discussed the attitude of the UK government toward joining the EEC on 15 October. Lemass thought a Labour government would be harder to deal with than a Conservative. Kennedy thought Labour would do more to get the UK into EEC. The US view was that Wilson would be more positive about Europe than Gaitskell. […]

Newsinger The Rule of the Tech Lords

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[…] not as warnings but as goals to be achieved’: See Alejandra Lucia, Silicon Valley Fascism (independently published, 2025), pp. 17-18. William Rees-Mogg was a pillar of the Conservative establishment in Britain, a former editor of The Times, chairman of the Arts Council and vice-chairman of the BBC’s Board of Governors. 6 6 A good […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

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