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 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] apparently come before the national interest – and the interests of the armed forces. Also reflecting on Iraq ten years on was erstwhile MI6 officer and now Conservative MP Rory Stewart, who took part in the invasion/occupation. Stewart concluded: 31 Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Iraq war planning wholly irresponsible, say senior UK military figures’, . 32 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge a Conservative government by the same […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[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)
[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 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 75 (Summer 2018)
[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 […]