Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Steve Bannon, one of the Munk debate series, that took place in Toronto in 2018. Here he actually argued that ‘extreme inequality’ is a threat to ‘the liberal order’, that there are people whose massive accumulation of wealth gives then ‘power that in a liberal state nobody should have’. Reflecting on when he studied […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] 1970 as a UK equivalent of Janis Joplin but never enjoyed comparable success. 5 Peter Hain had, originally, been a very active (and visible) campaigner for the Liberal Party but joined Labour in 1977. 6 Jenner organized a set of festivals in Hyde Park in the late ‘60s and initially managed The Pink Floyd. […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] to get Trump in line was a briefing at the Pentagon on 20 July 2017. Mattis, Tillerson and Cohn all gave carefully prepared presentations celebrating ‘the post-war, liberal, international rules-based order’ and how much the United States had got out of it. (p. 9) This meeting was, Bergen writes, ‘one of the most important […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the appeasement of Germany and on economic policy. Surveying the wreckage of traditional British industries, Macmillan had urged politicians, industrialists and investors to abandon their commitment to liberal economics and pursue not self-interest but a “national economic policy”, their actions guided by a State planning structure capable of taking a synoptic view.’ As ‘Supermac’ […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state was the post-war model, committed to full employment, economic growth, modernization and social justice. It was not the liberal version (basically a customs union) favoured by the US Government, which viewed the 1951 Coal and Steel Treaty with a mixture of relief (because it brought […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity, as victims or as perpetrators.’ […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] enough to oppose its loss and painful enough to prevent its occurrence. A division of labour emerged in the two wings of the US ruling party. The liberal wing devoted its energy to creating and maintaining the myth of what could be lost while the traditional wing (erroneously called ‘conservative’) became devoted to creating […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] combined Conservative and UKIP vote) not voting at all. Despite this the UK system delivered Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these […]
