Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] to have gone even farther, terrifying both the left and the right with the fear of incipient slaughter by their enemies. Thus militant trade-unionists as well as conservative generals in Chile received small cards printed with the ominous words Djakarta se acerca (Jakarta is approaching). (103) This is a model destabilization plan — to […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent’s most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one of … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] primacy. Taking the post-modern route away from the analysis of the real spared the sensitive cultural analyst from those career-threatening conflicts with the line coming from the Conservative governments of the day. If the left was out, post-moderism provided an alternative to embracing the new right, a sideways step. After the authors’ long introductory […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] into pointless murder. It will come as no surprise to learn that Farran walked away from the crime, wrote a best-selling memoir, stood for parliament as a Conservative candidate in 1950 (he was defeated by the sitting Labour MP, a certain George Wigg), and went on to have a successful political career in Canada. […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] voce approval of two merger agreements. The deal was a difficult one: PowerGen wanted to take over of East Midlands, a vertical combination already rejected by the Conservative Government. In return, according to their lobbyist, PowerGen offered to commit to coal contracts to save coal-mining jobs. On June 25, 1998 when DTI Minister Margaret […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] of every left-wing group in the country. The right, he says, needed to match the left’s ability to mobilize on short notice and track the activities of conservative Americans. ‘The radical left,’ he claims, ‘in this country has an incredible, computer-connected network that has enormous files connected with them.'(12) Singlaub swallowed someone’s line the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] have been coming from a variety of Christian groups, including Christian Solidarity Worldwide, headed by Baroness Cox. These groups have found the columns of a number of conservative newspapers open to them; in this country notably the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Attempting to refute and rebut the claims of these groups is the European-Sudanese […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] the food producers. At one point Nott describes himself as ‘a rebel by nature’. Let’s see: from public school to Cambridge University, into the City and the Conservative Party, back to the City and thence, after a brief, eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman – that […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] an early release from prison, Southwark Crown Court was told. John Haase told Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle that he arranged the alleged payment through a relation of Conservative cabinet minister, Southwark Crown Court heard. Haase, 59, and his cousin Paul Bennett, 44, received a Royal Pardon in 1996 and were released 11 months into […]