The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] its own estimate – to confront the spectre of Bolshevism and survive. Lloyd George himself, searching always for a middle way in politics, had shifted away from Liberal radicalism towards a corporatism best described as the creation in Parliamentary politics of a staatspartei, composed of Liberals and mainstream Conservatives (leaving a fringe right wing […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] nations to be peacefully resolved via co-operation between the great powers in the UN Security Council – a contemporary version of the nineteenth century ‘Concert of Europe’. Liberal Internationalism Set against this was the West’s vision of the international scene after the conclusion of the first Cold War. The philosophy and discourse underpinning it […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] in the process. Homophobia, opposition to women’s rights and to the right to abortion, the defence of ‘family values’, Christian schooling – indeed saving Christianity itself from liberal secularist assault – were to increasingly become the core of Christian Right politics. The Moral Majority claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] in particular, comparing circumstances when it began with how matters rest today. Then….. Though people may have forgotten this, in 1952 Britain was governed by a Conservative-National Liberal coalition with 321 MPs. Of these 35 represented constituencies in Scotland and 69 in the north of England.1 Reflecting that this was an administration that had […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] (2001). This is apparently out of print but copies are available at . Conford is at . 3 Jorian Jenks (1899-1963) was the asthmatic son of the liberal lawyer and academic, Edward Jenks. Educated at Haileybury, one of Britain’s leading public schools, from his early childhood he wanted to be a farmer and in […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] to insist that the country’s leader was not a communist or to advocate more support to insulate the country from Marxist influence. Another option deemed acceptable by liberal opponents of a leader or party on the US regime’s black list is to encourage also official support of alternatives that could dilute the supposed concentration […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Gospel Association. Stewart-Smith’s contributions to the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. The Hidden Face of the Labour Party The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press accounts of […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] at all is a testament to the sheer volume of myopic and simple-minded moralising which is passing for analysis in much of the media, especially in more liberal quarters (such as The Guardian or Channel 4 News). Greater Europe The end of the Cold War (or maybe the end of the First Cold War) […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] at all is a testament to the sheer volume of myopic and simple-minded moralising which is passing for analysis in much of the media, especially in more liberal quarters (such as The Guardian or Channel 4 News). Greater Europe The end of the Cold War (or maybe the end of the First Cold War) […]

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