Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] instead enlisted, serving as an officer in Kenya and Somaliland, until he was invalided out in 1943. His next step was to go and work for the conservative magazine Truth, edited by Collin Brooks, which became a convenient vehicle for his anti-Semitism. As late as 1947, he was 3 planning to write a book […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]