Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared with this, in 2015 on a turnout of 66%, 11.3 million (24.5% of the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] of wine and had a an enjoyable chat. Out of which came a very good article.52 It was thus a pleasure to have his book on Winston Churchill reviewed in these columns by Simon Matthews.53 Since when Bowman has put together a website about the book on which there is a collection of other […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] an untidy mind and sub-zero diplomatic judgement. He is an international stain on our reputation’. And to make matters even worse, he ‘thinks he is the next Churchill’. (p. 227) When Johnson eventually became Prime Minister and appointed his new Cabinet, as far as Duncan was concerned he had replaced ‘the Sensibles with the […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Carolina, Pence told the crowd that Pence also makes clear how much he valued Boris Johnson’s ‘friendship and respect’ and refers to ‘his brilliant biography of Winston Churchill’. (p. 359) He has obviously not read it. 21 21 ‘my faith teaches me to give second chances. There was too much at stake not to. […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] before Dunkirk, in the late spring of 1940 as more and more of France fell under German control and following War Cabinet discussion of the proposal, Winston Churchill instructed Colonel Colin Gubbins3 to form a resistance force of civilian volunteers. These were the Auxiliary Units. Malcolm Atkins argues on his website4 and in his […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and control over the ‘road to Moscow’ to prevent future attacks on the Soviet Union. When he gave his infamous ‘Iron Curtain’ address in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill knew that the Allies had given their full consent to the Soviet occupation. Most US Americans did not. When US forces occupied Korea and installed the […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Rights that was an obstacle to immigration control and that this was an EU institution. She was wrong. First, the ECHR was established in 1950 by Winston Churchill amongst others. Second, it has nothing to do with the EU; if refugees turn up on our doorstep then the UK is under an international (i.e. […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why can’t you plan […]
