Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] 2004 and the Maidan revolution of 2014 – to transform Ukraine from being a corrupt and repressive post-Soviet basket case run by pro-Russian oligarchs into a Western liberal democracy and EU member. This ambition has never been accepted by Putin’s Russia which aims to turn its ‘near abroad’, notably Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] the process strengthening the rights of the individual in the face of State power. The third barred Catholics from the throne, which appears a good deal less liberal to contemporary generations than the first two parts; but to those who drafted it the measure was rooted in the conviction that Catholicism, absolutism and oppression […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] abortion is infanticide; that homosexuality is an abomination; that Catholicism is a 12 false faith; and that God does not hear the prayers of Catholics, Jews or liberal Protestants. He also insists that ‘the Bible unequivocally promotes Small Government, the free market, and the development of business and commerce for personal gain. One of […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] is genuinely difficult. Opposing imperialism, in this instance, requires military and economic support for Ukraine, even if it comes from the U.S. But this is also the liberal position.8 So there you have it: since it is apparently impossible to support the liberal position, asking ‘Who invaded whom? Who is destroying whose cities and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] (My emphasis). Do Danczuk and Baker get close to proving this? The authors provide Smith’s background – though not in detail. He was Chairman of the Rochdale Liberal Party in 1949, joined Labour and got elected as a local councillor in 1952. Thereafter he became a fairly typical example of the northern ‘boss politician’. […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party from its links with the trade union movement, which he believed had long outlived its usefulness, and to instead make it the party of the liberal super rich. Labour would be turned into a British version of the Clinton-led Democratic Party, funded by the liberal wing of the ruling class. Brown, however, […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Michael Gove (the last two quite shamelessly placing their own ambitions ahead of the national welfare). Pressure groups such as Economists for Free Trade (EFT: basically the liberal economic ideologue Patrick Minford), encouraged by unjustifiably generous media treatment given the outfit’s actual size and weight in the field of applied economics, have not helped. […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] this package is really about: the lack of judgment by CSIS, their dirty tricks, harassment and above all, their denial of basic justice to innocent Canadians. The Liberal Party of Canada is aware of this information, but according to a letter from Michael Ignatieff’s office (copied to the Evidence directory), the Liberals are not […]