Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] MP for South West Norfolk London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Robin Ramsay This is what we might call the manifesto of the group of free marketeers1 within the Conservative Party which briefly had nominal control of British economic policy this year.2 Lobster’s site creator and manager, Ian Tresman, sent me this and suggested I review […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] has been operating among what used to known as the Stupid Party. By their omissions shall ye know them In his Times column on 28 March, former Conservative MP Matthew Parris worried about the ‘magic money tree’ the Conservatives had discovered with which to pay employees and employers whose livelihoods had been shut down […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Nazis, Unfinished Victory, to largely rave reviews from the press, shows that this was not the case. A writer of popular histories, Bryant was a Baldwinite Conservative, who in 1929 became the educational adviser to the Bonar Law Conservative College at Ashridge. His first book had been The Spirit of Conservatism. From 1933 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the BBC and everything that the United Kingdom stood for. I considered liberal capitalism the best system of economics the world has had. I was a conventional Conservative. I wrote for Conservative newspapers. He worked alongside Boris Johnson at The Spectator and was its political correspondent at the time of 9/11. Not long afterwards […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Strategy (AES), adopted by Tony Benn as a campaigning tool in early 1975. Framed to cast Labour as firmly opposed to the decisions taken by the preceding Conservative government (and of course, by implication, critical of any accommodation with those hinted at 1 Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pregentrified area […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[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 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: Collapse of stout party Eden, Suez and America Simon Matthews Have you heard the one about the Conservative Prime Minister who is disowned by the right-wing of the Tory Party for not seeing through a bombastic and nationalist policy, and disowned by its left-wing for duplicity and generally ridiculed by the wider public? Forget […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Barber was Heath’s Chancellor the Exchequer. Of the Thatcher/Major period, 1979-97 he notes: ‘ . . . Britain’s manufacturers should have thrived during the 18 years of Conservative rule . . . yet the reverse was the case with the manufacturing industry suffering painful reductions in markets, capacity Dan Atkinson’s thoughts on what is […]
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[PDF file]: […] in Dennis Freney’s Nazis Out of Uniform: Dangers of Neo-Nazi Terrorism in Australia14 The mixture of overt racists and anti-semites, neo-Nazis and the right-wing of the ‘respectable’ conservative parties which Searchlight has been documenting in this country, is almost exactly duplicated in Australia. (One of the major differences is that in Australia Butler plays […]
