Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Market Campaign, with Roy Jenkins as deputy, which aimed to recruit Labour intellectuals and trade unionists to its cause. Other campaigns were launched by the Conservative and Liberal parties, Federal Union (assisted by a number of former civil servants), the United Europe Association (with support from several religious leaders), businesses (British and European bankers, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] and my part in the operation being particularly easy in that it consisted of saying “No” at frequent intervals’. This was in 1970.(12) Mark was certainly no liberal. His rejection of Deane-Drummond’s prescriptions derived from the belief that they would exacerbate conflict situations whereas the role of the police involved ‘the containment or absorption […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] with the Soviet Union and protectionist measures against US trade: it would damage the long-term US projects to contain the USSR and make the world safe for liberal capitalism. The Americans offered West Germany the latest and best high-tech weaponry. This did not include nuclear arms but it did extend to nuclear-capable missile systems […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] policies failed to chime with younger party members as they had with Thomson’s older post-war and early Cold War generation. Lord Thomson finished his life as a Liberal Democrat and, apart from several business interests, had a spell chairing the Independent Broadcasting Authority. Lord Holme of Cheltenham, who chaired the successor Broadcasting Standards Commission […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] – once more Threadneedle Street was giving priority to international ‘obligations’ over commitments to build a fairer society at home. I reckon the Bank reverted to its liberal outlook of pre-war days in the late 40s – because by this time, given the 1949 sterling crisis and devaluation, currency liberalisation was seen as the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] fact, the ICFTUE. Of Sacha Volman, Philip Agee says that he ‘set up the Institute of Political Education in Costa Rica (cryptonym Zraeger) where he sent young liberal hopefuls for training.'(34) Volman was, according to Agee, the CIA contract operations officer in San José.(35) In January 1952, delegates to a conference in London of […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] be a common lexicon and belief system with other flimsy theories that have crossed the Atlantic and taken root in the UK during the same period. Neo- liberal economics, ‘the End of History’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama and the corporate management strategies of Tom Peters promoted a set of values (successfully in the UK […]
