Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] not confront the institutions that orchestrate social and economic injustice. They seek to make the ruling class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the appeasement of Germany and on economic policy. Surveying the wreckage of traditional British industries, Macmillan had urged politicians, industrialists and investors to abandon their commitment to liberal economics and pursue not self-interest but a “national economic policy”, their actions guided by a State planning structure capable of taking a synoptic view.’ As ‘Supermac’ […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] combined Conservative and UKIP vote) not voting at all. Despite this the UK system delivered Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] which so far neither Theresa May’s nor Boris Johnson’s administrations have been able to deliver. The Conservatives have split, with some MPs either leaving to join the Liberal Democrats or go independent. But the question of ‘Brexit’ has not proved a political problem for the Tories alone. Within Labour there remain voices, somewhat emboldened […]