Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the standards of France, Germany, Denmark etc, it is one. But uniquely, among European states as far as I know, there is a minority of the ruling Conservative Party which wants the state to fail; which welcomes a failing state; which regards the state as essentially a necessary evil to be kept as small […]
[PDF file]: […] elite interests. Well yes, sort of. From another perspective, said 2018 emails show fairly routine contemporary political machinating by a section of the Leave lobby within the Conservative Party: try to influence this or that body; place this or that person in a position to advance the cause; use social media to con people. […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the reelection of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Party, which he considers to be […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] (Marla Maples) pregnant while still married to his first wife (Ivana Trump), and bragged of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] of all things Brexit, until one realizes that their Governors include Michael Gove, Lord Johnson of Marylebone (brother of the PM), Lord Chadlington (President of the Witney Conservative association) and Lord Maude. They are certainly doing their bit for impartiality. As for his book, well . . . it’s all here: a perfectly fair […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] American speaker said that his own analysis had confirmed the broad conclusions indicated in the preceding International intervention. Most of our oil price assumptions were probably too conservative, but $12 looked outside the upper limit.’ 76 (emphases added) It is important to note that estimates to which the participants were referring were all in […]