Just Boris by Sonia Purnell

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] include politicians, civil servants, and journalists. These social and professional networks are exploited regularly. It is the ‘old boy’ system, and it works.14 Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP since 1987, who has served in numerous government positions, is very well placed within that ‘old boy system’. He is a long term personal and […]

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