Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London and the devolved governments deteriorated sharply after the Brexit referendum of 2016 (when Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU), in particular after Theresa May’s departure from office in 2019. This became very clear when May’s forlorn efforts to reboot One Nation Toryism were replaced by the Johnson government’s ‘Global […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] embarrassing fashion – such as the time he was surprised to discover that Britain had nuclear weapons. This was in front of the then British Prime Minister Theresa May. And then there was ‘Trump’s penchant to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked, such as the criminal cases of Halkbank, ZTE, potentially […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the EU but within the single market. It works for Norway and other nations and worked perfectly well for the UK until now. For some reason Theresa May seems to have believed that it was the European Court of Human Rights that was an obstacle to immigration control and that this was an […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] being a racist himself when it is convenient, but has done nothing to actively fight racism and, both as Mayor of London and as a member of Theresa May’s government, was party to the racist Hostile Environment policy. As far as Bower is concerned, accusations of racism are just another way of distracting attention […]

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