Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] is genuinely difficult. Opposing imperialism, in this instance, requires military and economic support for Ukraine, even if it comes from the U.S. But this is also the liberal position.8 So there you have it: since it is apparently impossible to support the liberal position, asking ‘Who invaded whom? Who is destroying whose cities and […]
[PDF file]: […] exploited by hostile states to launder dirty money and gain leverage against us. Even now our leaders are reluctant to see the truth. They cling to long-disproved liberal assumptions – that our values are universal, that the rest of the world wants to become like us, that interconnectedness makes war impossible, that the liberalisation […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] leads instead to Pierce Langford III. Langford headed ‘the Wichita Falls, Texas group of investors’ for whom 14 Allbeury was also active (like Oliver Smedley) in the Liberal Party. He stood as the Liberal candidate in a Parliamentary by-election in Petersfield in 1960. See his Guardian obituary, 3 January 2006. 46 Summer 2010 Pierson […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] the process strengthening the rights of the individual in the face of State power. The third barred Catholics from the throne, which appears a good deal less liberal to contemporary generations than the first two parts; but to those who drafted it the measure was rooted in the conviction that Catholicism, absolutism and oppression […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] abortion is infanticide; that homosexuality is an abomination; that Catholicism is a 12 false faith; and that God does not hear the prayers of Catholics, Jews or liberal Protestants. He also insists that ‘the Bible unequivocally promotes Small Government, the free market, and the development of business and commerce for personal gain. One of […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 59 Sources Robin Ramsay SCADS The entire February 2010 issue of the American Behavioural Scientist was devoted to State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADS) – parapolitics to you and me; conspiracy theories to the major media. The individual papers (which used to be online but have since been removed) are nothing to get too […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] 2004 and the Maidan revolution of 2014 – to transform Ukraine from being a corrupt and repressive post-Soviet basket case run by pro-Russian oligarchs into a Western liberal democracy and EU member. This ambition has never been accepted by Putin’s Russia which aims to turn its ‘near abroad’, notably Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] (My emphasis). Do Danczuk and Baker get close to proving this? The authors provide Smith’s background – though not in detail. He was Chairman of the Rochdale Liberal Party in 1949, joined Labour and got elected as a local councillor in 1952. Thereafter he became a fairly typical example of the northern ‘boss politician’. […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Labour Party from its links with the trade union movement, which he believed had long outlived its usefulness, and to instead make it the party of the liberal super rich. Labour would be turned into a British version of the Clinton-led Democratic Party, funded by the liberal wing of the ruling class. Brown, however, […]