Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the print and broadcast media, and in many universities, tends to regard Keynesian economics as conducive to unsound experiments liable to generate inflation and undermine free markets. Theresa May’s criticism of Labour’s spending proposals in the 2017 General Election, that ‘there was no magic money tree’, may not have persuaded the 40 per cent […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] also accepts the ‘declinist’ context in which everything In 2017 Trump called Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Japan, India, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Ireland and Egypt prior to contacting Theresa May. In 2021 Biden called Canada and Mexico prior to speaking with Boris Johnson. 4 Massively exaggerated in the sense that the UK is a party […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] same view as in 1975 and vote for the status quo. We all know what happened next: a narrow popular endorsement of withdrawal 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 […]

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