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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] few advisors, and seemed resistant to reaching out beyond their small inner circle.’ What does this sound like? It sounds like NuLab. And it sounds like the Liberal Democrats. All three major parties are now in the grip of little cliques with predictable consequences: as the parties’ members are not of interest or value […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The Times Guide to the Election 1970. South and Shoreditch after its sitting Labour MP Ron Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).7 With the SDP/ Liberal Alliance polling 50% at this point (and leading the polls continuously from October 1981 to April 1982 during which period Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins won […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] rolling political economic crises will only intensify. The effectiveness of the state as a referee within the capitalist system has historically been essential to the creditability of liberal democracy as a practical idea. As the state fails, so will liberal democracy, and with it the chance for some of the richest economies to learn […]

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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] not confront the institutions that orchestrate social and economic injustice. They seek to make the ruling class more palatable. With the support of the Democratic Party, the liberal media, academia and social media platforms in Silicon Valley, demonize the victims of the corporate coup d’etat and deindustrialization. They make their primary political alliances with […]

Misc reviews

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[…] is his first collection of essays. They began as book reviews, mostly for the New York Review of Books. Powers is what the Americans call a ‘ liberal’; but he is a liberal who has written a biography of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Since big time spooks won’t return your calls if you […]

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