Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: The Nasty Party Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain Phil Burton-Cartledge London: Verso, 2021 Scott Newton The British Conservative Party is one of the most successful election winning machines in the world. It has been in power, either on its own or as part of a coalition, for 71 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs) Simon Matthews Since late summer 2020, it has looked as if the impact of an incompetently managed mass pandemic and a ludicrously self-inflicted ‘hard’ Brexit (think here up to 85,000 dead, shortages of food and medicine, the Police losing control of the streets, […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] insights into that process, insights expressed with varying degrees of disgust. Max Boot being so effected as to decide that he can no longer call himself a conservative at all. Coming from the right they are all the more successful in conveying the enormity of the Trump phenomenon and deserve to be read by […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] Shawcross – who subsequently defected to the Conservatives and embarked on a business career which at this stage put him in the Shell boardroom – arranged with Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan a payment to IRIS of £40,000, worth about £500,000 today.(8) Lord Shawcross revealed that IRIS was already getting money from major companies […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] found; uphold human rights, most important of which are liberty, freedom of religious beliefs, social justice, and the self-determination of all peoples’.(153) And in fact, some genuinely conservative organisations that have affiliated with WACL promote a relatively moderate form of anti-communism and probably accept this disingenuous description as an accurate summary of their own […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] fell by 957,000. (6) All this made for a large constituency, based at the popular and the political level on a fusion between the pre-1914 Liberal and Conservative parties, in favour of a liberal, anti-inflationary and anti-labour economic policy, which the Establishment used to construct a hegemonic bloc which dominated British politics up to […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] but never traditional socialists or ‘nationalists’ of any hue. I recall Paddy Ashdown and Vincent Gable at early seminars and there brief flirtations with one or two Conservative neo-liberal intellectuals. Like the early IEA and Adam Smith Institute in its time, it was up for grabs by either main political party for a brief […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings (BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought over several free-market ideologues including Philip Bobbitt (LBJ’s nephew). He was Reagan’s legal counsel from 1980-81, on the Select Committee/cover-up on Iran/Contra and […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] (controlling key committees of Westminster and assisting the Whips of both Houses and both Parties) are no longer retired SIS officers. Nor do they now retire into Conservative Central Office, or become Conservative Office agents in the constituencies. In addition, the (mainly Conservative) hereditaries have been booted out of the House of Lords. These […]
