Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] extent, kept under control. Britain’s decline from 10th in the OECD ‘league tables’ of economic performance to its present 19th began in 1980, the year that the Conservative Government scrapped the remaining controls on overseas investment of British-generated wealth.4 Although this issue no longer makes it onto the main agendum of this society, the […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of the US is actually a struggle within the ‘oligarchy’ that rules America; between its ‘two ruling factions’ – identified respectively as the ‘liberal’ right and ‘ conservative’ right (p. 6) – for ‘dominance in the world’s most powerful country’. (p. 1) The competition between these two factions, claims Raso, has not only ‘shaped […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] inflame tensions between City and Europe’. Reading (just) between the lines of his speech it is obvious that Boris is offering himself as the leader of the Conservative Party who will take the UK out of the EU to preserve the City of London as the financial crime centre of the world economy. *new* […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] But perhaps I had always misunderstood where the great investigative reporter was coming from; perhaps he had always been a hatchet-man for the hard right of the Conservative Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] being ruled as suicide due to clinical depression. Sandra Paul later married David Wynne-Morgan, who ran Annabel’s night club, and is today married to Michael Howard MP, Conservative Party leader 2003-2005. Page 10 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Harold MacMillan to take the UK into the Common Market. Smedley, who was Vice President of the […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, held a significant post (albeit he calls it fagging) and featured much in Conservative counsel. Because the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, sat in the House of Lords, Butler as deputy had an unusually important role in the Commons, thus enhancing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] change face up to the constitutional obstacle that confronts them, the only progressive reforms to materialise will be 3 At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] official Party policy. Wilson’s administration did not, however, accept the Conference 1 Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: Volume 2: 1945-60 (St Albans: Paladin, 1975), p. 559. Ted Heath’s Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] could be extraordinarily kind, agreeable and thoughtful about individuals and people at large, lovable even, with a more inclusive vision of contemporary society than many in the Conservative Party’. Second, his ‘all-consuming self-absorption and self-belief that impelled him to be the most important and visible person . . . . He had no interest […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] What of his political opinions? These are not that evident from his diaries it has to be said, but back in 1995, when he was already a Conservative MP, he had co-authored with Dominic Hobson a somewhat idiosyncratic ultra-Thatcherite volume, Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue. Some of the book’s […]

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