A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to insist that the country’s leader was not a communist or to advocate more support to insulate the country from Marxist influence. Another option deemed acceptable by liberal opponents of a leader or party on the US regime’s black list is to encourage also official support of alternatives that could dilute the supposed concentration […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (2001). This is apparently out of print but copies are available at . Conford is at . 3 Jorian Jenks (1899-1963) was the asthmatic son of the liberal lawyer and academic, Edward Jenks. Educated at Haileybury, one of Britain’s leading public schools, from his early childhood he wanted to be a farmer and in […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] at all is a testament to the sheer volume of myopic and simple-minded moralising which is passing for analysis in much of the media, especially in more liberal quarters (such as The Guardian or Channel 4 News). Greater Europe The end of the Cold War (or maybe the end of the First Cold War) […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] at all is a testament to the sheer volume of myopic and simple-minded moralising which is passing for analysis in much of the media, especially in more liberal quarters (such as The Guardian or Channel 4 News). Greater Europe The end of the Cold War (or maybe the end of the First Cold War) […]

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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]

lob28liberalapocalypsepdf

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The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] countries which compose it. The existence of a large trading area, characterised by an absence of barriers to the flow of factors, has long been believed by liberal economists to facilitate the most efficient allocation of resources within it. When that area comprises not one nation-state but a group of them, its creation is […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – Sir Cyril Smith and Sir Jimmy Savile – will not. But for those who forget – or never knew – of their celebrity value to the Liberal Party of yesteryear, their juxtaposition on this February 1974 party election broadcast will fill in a little history.27 Useful to whom? The withdrawal of the LibDem […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rise of a racist revanchist movement in the heartland on one side (merging with a distinctly upper-class college-bred “alt-right” racist movement), and the collapse of the neo- liberal consensus on the Democratic side’. And this ‘took place against the backdrop of a splintering and collapsing of the media landscape’. Trumps ‘bellicose pussy-grabbing vulgarity and […]

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