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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 […]

The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] fell apart. Its footnotes were so extensive and dense that someone produced and circulated an index to them. 5 Islamic terrorism.6 Bale describes himself as ‘a classical liberal, a radical individualist, an unabashed secularist, a member of the anti-PC and anti-totalitarian left, and a counter-cultural rebel’.7 What it means in practise is that he […]

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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 […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] had reanimated COINTELPRO ‘to prevent militant Black Nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability’. The Tate-Polanski house on Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘ liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.27 It makes obvious political sense […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (emphasis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the more vague ‘peace, justice and strong institutions’, to which many governments could […]

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