Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of post-war British society. A range of political and economic philosophies and traditions went into the version embraced by the Attlee government and indeed successive Labour and Conservative administrations all the way to 1979. Nurtured by over a century of humanistic and religious teaching, and a respect for the rights of the individual citizen […]

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] high enough), ‘what do politicians at home know of the cruel, hard facts of life when civil disorder has broken out?’ He deliberately courted controversy thereafter, as Conservative MP for Aberdeenshire West, joining the pretty extremist Monday Club and Anglo-Rhodesian Society. He also became an ‘icon’ for the Conservative Right, who of course didn’t […]

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] weapons exports and military expenditure it still certainly is), then the Founding Fathers certainly intended a counter-revolution. When the dead US president, now beatified, spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference two hundred and ten years later he said: ‘They are our brothers, these freedom fighters, and we owe them our help. I’ve spoken […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] standard of living may not be sustained’. Falwell singled out Margaret Thatcher, who had just become Prime Minister in Britain, for particular praise. Having thus established his conservative credentials, he went on to address the ‘culture wars’ agenda with chapters attacking Feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment, ferociously condemning abortion, defending the Christian family […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] reports, while lawyers provide litigation support. . . . What’s missing from those paragraphs (and the report generally) is the millions the Russians have given to the Conservative Party.4 Why is it missing? The Intelligence and Security Committee has a Conservative majority. Add those Russian millions to the more than ten million given to […]

Hoodwinked by the Department of Health? Frank Dobson and the 1997 Jimmy Savile report

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the 1997 General Election’ in Lobster 73.1 What happened to the external management review of Broadmoor highsecurity hospital that Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had commissioned, once the Conservative Party had left office? The report was sent to his office in April 1997, shortly before the Conservatives lost power at that year’s General Election. The […]

We don’t need no…

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] appreciation of the pound expected from its imminent status as a ‘petro-currrency’, the government would raise interest rates to ‘control the money supply’. Which is what the Conservative government elected in 1979 did. Increased interest rates made the pound attractive, pushing up the value of sterling. Frank Blackaby noted that, during the great rise […]

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[…] or dismiss the majority of its board — was Morgan McSweeney . . . McSweeney was also a director of Labour Together, a group formed as a conservative counterweight to the rise of Corbyn. As the Canary pointed out both the CCDH and Labour Together share the same address. McSweeney has now been appointed […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] context. 2 REVIEW INTO THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE (AND ASSOCIATED SCHEMES) IN GOVERNMENT (caps in original) at or . 3 1 The contemporary Conservative politician has relatively few core beliefs but one of them is ‘public bad, private good’. Anyone who suggests getting the private sector into the state’s activities […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Mistress of the Robes; her brother-in-law, Lord Eustace Percy, was several times a member of the Cabinet and is still today an influential member of the Conservative Party There was hardly one of those named who was not at least occasionally in favour of a German–English understanding. . . . I wrote a […]

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