Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] starting to fracture yet. The Christian Right resolutely stands by Trump for the time being. John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.

Knightley

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[…] the anti-communist activity since the war which reached a peak in the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the German industrial […]

A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] made so vociferously in the media were unfounded. ’ 9 By the time the report – originally commissioned by Mr Dorrell for the Conservatives – was published, Labour were in power. That less than two years old Government failed to tell Parliament how the review found ‘a member of Broadmoor’s staff’ had brought a […]

Atomic Albion

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] and Tony Benn, though correct in his critiques, was hampered by having been earlier in his career a keen advocate of technology and a member of four Labour governments that embraced nuclear power. Not that it was all paranoia. Anyone growing up in the 50s and 60s would also remember the ‘atoms for peace’ […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] danger Trump posed. Whatever the outcome of the election and however turbulent what will hopefully be the last months of Trump’s tenure the Never Trumpers books remain relevant, useful and worth reading. John Newsinger is a retired academic working on things Trumpian and (slowly) on the foreign, colonial and defence policies of the Labour Party.

Mexico missive

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] markedly similar situation in the UK, some of the indigenous population seemingly consider themselves above serving food in restaurants, mopping floors in hospitals and other general manual labour. Providing the 1 Locals who live next to his Aberdeen golf course raised Mexican flags next to their own St Andrew’s Crosses in a spirit of […]

Also noticed

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[…] there is much work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ (The Times, 12 October 2008). That million was or would be ultimately forthcoming from […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Right will suddenly discover that Trump’s excesses are, in all conscience, no longer tolerable. * John Newsinger is the author of many books, most recently All Hope Lies in the Proles: Orwell and the Left (Pluto Press). He is currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments.

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