Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] shadow), and in response to the alien value-system of communism, American involvement in the reorganisation and stabilisation of West European socioeconomic affairs meant ‘not so much preserving liberal procedures as re-establishing the overlapping hierarchies of power, wealth, and status that can loosely be termed capitalist.'(13) Frances Saunders (see note 6) skates over this political […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] rational attempt by the Chamberlain wing of the Tory Party to rejig the post-Versailles world in a way which would keep Germany a member of the international, liberal (economically liberal) world. ‘Between 1921 and 1940 the dominant alliance in Britain was founded on a coalition between a ruling élite centred on the Treasury, the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), 1948-57; General Secretary 1957-64. John Raeburn, past Secretary of London Trades Council. (58) Phillip Fothergill, ex-President of the the Liberal Party. Admiral Lord Cunningham (who as Chief of Staff had in 1945 threatened Attlee with resignation over defence policy.) And a coterie of other retired senior […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] are ill-served by it? Curtis largely blames the mainstream media for promoting a picture of British foreign policy completely at odds with the reality and says ‘the liberal intelligentsia is guilty of helping to weave a collective web of deceit’. ‘To read many mainstream commentators on Britain’s role in the world is to to […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] be executed are when the US and the UK march in step, as they did over Kosovo and in Iraq, thanks to Clinton and Bush. Pro-Americanism and liberal imperialism made Blair determined to act in the interests of his own concept of a ‘new world order’, using ‘force, pre-emptive attack and deception’.(16) For the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Richard B. Spence Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003 , $29.95, h/b Boasting over 1800 footnotes and a magnificent bibliography (including texts published in Turkmenistan) this would be awarded A for Application if such a prize existed in academia. The author, Professor of History at the University of Idaho, appears to be something of an … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] aspects of what has become known as Neo Conservative politics in the United States — the proposal of a new kind of interventionism which has been called liberal interventionism, or in some places neo-imperialism.’ () His principle role has been to support those who have sold the UK into this Eva Braun-like marriage to […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] only has this say about that relationship: ‘Healey shared, with a whole generation of Labour right-wingers from Hugh Gaitskell to Shirley Williams, a deep affinity with democratic liberal America’ (p. 156). This is true but it isn’t the point. In practice that ‘affinity’ led them to deal with, sometimes be funded and sponsored by, […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] his subject and the economic sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo- liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes […]
