Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.’ () The alliance between political liberalism, mainstream (i.e. non-evangelical) Protestants, and organised labour had formed the political basis for the New Deal in the Roosevelt era. During the Depression, ‘The Federal Council of Churches had provided enthusiastic support for […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
War stories Evidence that the Royal Air Force colluded with their German enemies in the most secret air mission of the Second World War has been discovered in the Czech Republic. The personal log books of some of the 87 Czechoslovak fighter pilots who escaped the 1939 German occupation of their country to fly RAF … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] expecting any reader to demur. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to be repeated: ‘The Labour apparatchiks swallowed whole the late Tory view that the public does not exist……. everyone is a customer; all services and professions are businesses.’ The public did […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] 1 per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
James Jesus Angleton and the ‘Third Way’ The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet ‘moles’ and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current research … Read more