Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the privatisers: 1. The public service ethos did exist and was most valuable in maintaining standards, continuity and honesty within public provision. 2. Multiplying the opportunities for fraud inevitably results in more fraud. The Wiki entry on him is incomplete but conveys something of this. He contributed ‘Laissez faire as religion’ to Lobster 58. […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] choose the Labour candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 (p. 404) is something he finds particularly outrageous and is worth quoting: ‘Realising they couldn’t win without fraud, Dobson’s supporters – without his knowledge – encouraged MPs to call on party members to collect their ballot papers. Members could vote by phone or post. […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] used to be ‘a simple, predictable con. Every four years, the money men in D.C. teamed up with party hacks to throw their weight behind whatever halfbright fraud of a candidate proved most adept at snowing the population into buying a warmed-over version of the same crappy politics they’ve always bought’. And the media […]