Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Mayor election in which Livingstone is, again, the Labour candidate. We learn that his uncle, also confusingly named Kenneth Livingstone, was a very active member of the Conservative party in Streatham and later joined the National Front. We are also told that Livingstone agreed to father children by two female members of the Labour […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] him revealing a London-based Soviet spy circle. These came from Czech defector Josef Frolik.2 3 Teacher observed that in February 1979, two weeks after Thatcher’s election as Conservative leader, a House of Lords debate on ‘Subversive and Extremist Elements’, initiated by Lord Chalfont, aired the Frolik allegations.2 4 Josten was a member of the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]