Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[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 63 (Summer 2012)
[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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Meeja news Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the German conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, did an interview with Russia Today 1in which, among other things, he said this. ‘Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States, you’ll see that in many points; like for example, the majority […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain in several of Britain’s biggest trade unions. In the mid-1970s a section of the Conservative Party and its allies within the state believed – or pretended to 8 Herb Meyer worked with David Hart and Brian Crozier in the 1980s peddling […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] late Leon Brittan as a rapist and as someone who had thwarted adequate investigations 5 The Sunday Times 18 October 2015. See 6 Victor Raikes was a Conservative MP 1931-1957 and later Chairman of the Monday Club 1976-1978. He resigned from Parliament in 1957 in anger at the UK ‘climbing down’ and abandoning military […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] of Ministers should meet in public. 32: The European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons should meet in public. 39: Both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party should reform themselves to become democratic bodies answerable to their membership so that members can change the Constitution of their party on the basis of […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] (p. 70). And, of course, God was to impart this prophetic message to more and more people as the 2016 Presidential election approached. As far as most conservative Christians were concerned, Trump presaged ‘a cultural counter-revolution’ and was ‘an answer to prayer’. (p. 15) The result was that Trump received the votes of ‘more […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] by Littlewood: ‘Butskellism is back. Expect an economic future of simply muddling through’. But Butskellism wasn’t ‘simply muddling through’. The term came from merging the name of Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler with that of Labour Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell and was coined in the mid 1950s, when there was a considerable […]