Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[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 […]

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[…] 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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[…] 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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

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[…] 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)

[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 […]

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