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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

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[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] He lays into billionaire Mike Ashley. His firm, Sports Direct, is notorious for its use of zero hours contracts and shows us all what a fullyrealised neo- liberal Britain would look like with employees from the university to the warehouse reduced to a new servile status. ‘Greedy bosses such as Ashley’, Skinner writes, ‘are […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] announcement that travel restrictions would be eased for US Americans (Cuba has never forbidden US citizens with valid visa documents to enter the country) sent waves through liberal and leftish America.1 5 Yet in the ‘fine print’ the State Department also explained ‘there is no plan to change US policy’. Mr Obama no longer […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a man with no publicly traceable political history, whose entire […]

The Political Economy of the Special Relationship by Jeremy Green

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] British capitalism, as the United States often had to work with and through British politicians, or 1 1 officials, and bankers to achieve its vision of a liberal economic order. Transatlantic integration and competition spurred the rise of the financial sector, an increased reliance on debt, a global easing of regulation, the ascendance of […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

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