Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the standards of France, Germany, Denmark etc, it is one. But uniquely, among European states as far as I know, there is a minority of the ruling Conservative Party which wants the state to fail; which welcomes a failing state; which regards the state as essentially a necessary evil to be kept as small […]
[PDF file]: […] elite interests. Well yes, sort of. From another perspective, said 2018 emails show fairly routine contemporary political machinating by a section of the Leave lobby within the Conservative Party: try to influence this or that body; place this or that person in a position to advance the cause; use social media to con people. […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose is to ensure the reelection of the Conservative Party at the next Election, because only by another Conservative victory will there come about that split in the Labour Party, which he considers to be […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England Sebastian Payne London: Macmillan, 2021, £21, h/b John Booth Whether Boris Johnson gets bored with No 10 or nervy Conservative Party funders push him out of the door, the author of Broken Heartlands finds little to comfort those hoping to see Sir Keir Starmer in Downing […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] 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. Footnotes-R-us […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] ready to tear up the roots just as things are getting better and trust your nation’s destiny to this extraordinary woman? Hardly a socialist question. Indeed, a conservative one. But it works. No, the nation rather comfortably replies, on the whole, we ain’t. It was a victory for consensus politics and the British way, […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] with the Popular Front – or even with communism – but had since moved to the right. Denis Healey is an obvious example. The government actually rejected Conservative attempts to establish an Un-British Activities Committee in the House of Commons, almost certainly because they were aware that it would be used to smear the […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] indeed the only popular politician, in Britain today. He is regarded by many commentators as by far the strongest contender to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, a prospect that most senior Conservatives regard with horror. He might well be our first pantomime prime minister. How has this British Berlusconi, this peculiar […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] as Chief Secretary of the Treasury in 2010, left the ‘no money left’ note to his successor,1 0 words that have helped Chancellor George Osborne and the Conservative party to frame the assault on Labour’s economic record ever since. Draper’s alma mater, the University of Manchester, was the setting for another electoral defeat for […]
