Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Books, 5 November 2020 at or . This concludes with a quote from The Daily Telegraph damning the government, written by Nick Timothy, former advisor to Theresa May MP and an indication of the state Johnson is now in. 4 One wonders why, rather than ‘supporting the government’, Labour leader Keir Starmer doesn’t […]

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 […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] more? Have we progressed that far from James Bond? Change is coming? But it could all change soon. During the Commons debate on the EAW, Home Secretary Theresa May made it clear that the criteria for Britain’s abiding by it had changed, so that much stricter criteria would be followed in the future. Formal […]

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 […]

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