The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his sums add up, the grim reality of the The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at or . 13 14 or 15 ‘Welcome to stagnation nation: Our Government has no money — and no strategy’, . 16 5 budget, buried […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti- Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] his sums add up, the grim reality of the The radical right in the USA has spotted it. See ‘Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media’ at or . 13 14 or 15 ‘Welcome to stagnation nation: Our Government has no money — and no strategy’, . 16 5 budget, buried […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Trump-backer Bernie Marcus.6 The same article quotes Congressman Mark Pocan describing AIPAC as ‘basically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP . . . a front group for conservative policy here in the U.S..’ 7 *new* Using Lobster’s website You probably know this already, but in case there are readers – like me! – who […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Benny Hill and Benito Mussolini: completely without principles, wholly irresponsible and unfit for any public office. However, as we know, the incredible has happened and a desperate Conservative Party has actually installed him as Prime Minister! Thus, the book is now worth some critical attention – not for anything it has to say about […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the European theatre.7 Profound consequences follow from Britain’s relationship with the Gulf States. To begin with, it has led the UK, quite willingly, into supporting the conservative and repressive elites running the Gulf States against internal and external opposition. The Arab Spring of 2011 spread to the Gulf, with the greatest popular uprisings […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Trump-backer Bernie Marcus.6 The same article quotes Congressman Mark Pocan describing AIPAC as ‘basically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP . . . a front group for conservative policy here in the U.S..’ 7 *new* Using Lobster’s website You probably know this already, but in case there are readers – like me! – who […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the recent refurbishment of the 24-storey West London apartment block occurred and includes the broader political ‘bonfire of regulation’ framework in which this took place. Under the Conservative premiership of David Cameron, writes Apps: the government was bound to an ideology that said it should not regulate the private sector, but should instead reduce […]

The Two Goulds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1970s and the conflict it produced with the unions was the first really big bump in the economic road since 1945, and the Labour Party allowed the Conservative Party and its supporting media to produce a false narrative about the decade, which blamed the unions and the party they funded. The true story was […]

Accessibility Toolbar