The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] civil suit against prominent Saudis. In all these cases, the concern was ultimately with the conduct of all banks in acting as flags of convenience for il liberal interests. By punishing one, the ‘system’ warned many others that the world had changed. The details of the issues are not important although all three were […]

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Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] vote in Addison ward, where Labour lost 2 seats to the Conservatives. Because of this the council became hung with the balance of power held by 2 Liberal councillors. After a week’s deliberations locally and with their national HQ (and substantial press coverage in The Evening Standard and The Guardian) the Liberals voted to […]

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John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] cemented by Lend-Lease, in the fight against Germany and Japan and work together in the creation of a new world order where the success of a reformed, liberal but social capitalism would be guaranteed. The synthesis of New Deal pragmatism, Keynes and Smith would bring lasting peace and prosperity to all under a continuing […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code’

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] tolerance with the Nazi devil and determined not to make the same mistake with communism, especially at a time when liberation theology was taking hold of its liberal wing. Pope Benedict is clearly his own man but there is now good reason to take a much greater interest in the close liaison between the […]

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A Who’s Who of Appeasers, 1939-41

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Clays Lovering Pochin and Co; a director of National Provincial Bank, the London Assurance, Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries and of the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co Ltd. Ex Liberal politician. Club: Brooks. Met Goering August 1939. Mentioned supporting negotiated peace March and July 1940. (See FO, PREM, Stokes). Aga Khan Rt Hon. Aga Sultan Sir […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] should be concerned solely with failures to follow the rules (hypocrisy) or with anomalies and injustices for which new rules should be created. Investigators are almost painfully liberal. The forms of constitutionalism are important to them and this quaint belief in the system working properly, rather like the belief of peasants that the Little […]

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Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] a senior colleague of Mandelson’s close friend, Sir John Birt, in her job as deputy managing director of the Foreign Office-funded BBC World Service. Liddle’s brother-in-law is Liberal Democrat peer Lord Newby of Rothwell, now a director of the public affairs company, Matrix Communications. Newby left the Civil Service to help form the SDP […]

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Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] was, of course, a Financial Times intelligentsia connection as well represented by both Martin Taylor and Ian Hargreaves who might be regarded, at the time, as ‘social liberal action intellectuals’, drawn towards Europe and liberal globalisation, much like the newspaper. Of course, none of these necessarily bought into the Marxist analysis but there was […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] and tools. The European project requires a ‘Frenchification’ of our security culture by people who are instinctive Republicans. It is not that New Labour wants an il liberal regime per se. New Labour is not fascist – unless we think European republicanism is inherently fascist – it is merely indifferent to liberal individualism. In […]

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