Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] with his live performances and his TV shows, Zelensky managed to generate a very unusual level of electoral appeal. As was later demonstrated by postelection analyses, Zelensky’s vote transcended the usual political distributions among different age groups. And yet, more than three-quarters of the Ukrainian electorate admitted they had no idea what Zelensky’s policy […]

Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Jim, but not as we want it…… First, the City of London. It was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 and, further, the business vote was abolished in 1969 in all other United Kingdom local authority elections except for the City. A special place indeed. In 2002 16,000 new business voters […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from liberal secularist assault – were to increasingly become the core of Christian Right politics. The Moral Majority claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] significant role in a future Labour government, though, he found himself plunged into the whirlpool of London politics, while nationally the war with Argentina rebooted the Conservative vote and saw Thatcher first past the post in June 1983. Opposition Back in the Commons, rather than returning to a ministerial career, Sedgemore found himself in […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is accepted. It’s totally different from that Little England that Thatcher tried to hold on to.’ I presume these comments were made pre-23 June 2016. The anti-EU vote has much wider ramifications – and not least the politics of those who successfully propelled us to the result. For many who supported the struggle for […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘an answer to prayer’. (p. 15) The result was that Trump received the votes of ‘more than 80 percent of the white born-again Christians’ with the evangelical vote counting ‘for nearly a third of all the votes cast for Trump’ (p. 26). He quotes Pastor Robert Jeffress to the effect that millions of Christian […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] evidence from Arizona, New York, and California suggests more than 500,000 registrations were tampered with or improperly handled….hundreds of thousands of voters were denied the right to vote or were forced to vote provisionally. A quarter million or more provisional or affidavit Democratic ballots were not counted. Available evidence also suggests that the vast […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]

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