Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] hard-working, middle-of-the-road. They were victims of the Political Class who had been left with no one to speak up for them, and nowhere to go. Neither the Conservative opposition, nor the New Labour government, is speaking for these people…….This estrangement between a tiny governing elite and mainstream British society is one of the overwhelming […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] that the Chicago-based right-wing publisher Henry Regnery had agreed to issue. Regnery, however, backed out of the deal at the last minute. Chesterton next approached another American conservative publisher, Devin Adair, but it too rejected the book. (24) At Chesterton’s request, del Valle searched for yet another American publisher. Through Josephine Beaty, the DAC […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement 1923-1945 Julie Gottlieb, London: I.B. Tauris, 2000, £39.50 The Viceroy’s Daughters Anne de Courcy London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £20.00 Blackshirts on-Sea J. S. Booker London: Brockinday Publications, 1999, £18.00 Fascism is generally regarded as a fiercely masculine political movement committed to excluding women from the worlds … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
Matthew R. Simmons London: Wiley, 2005, h/b Ironic, perhaps, that I finished reviewing this book in Calgary, just south of the largest land-based oil project in the American hemisphere, the Athabasca shale tar sands oil recovery projects. Collectively these will realise investment between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the next ten years. Pipelines … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] and drug dealing began to circulate. Sound familiar? Michael Allcock, a tax inspector recently jailed for corruption, has claimed that he was fitted up after investigating a Conservative ex-government minister who was alleged to have relations with Nadir. Allcock had interviewed Robertson. Allcock was also investigating Howard Marks. In 1994, I contacted Pat through […]