Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Lobster 61 the last economy-wide recession in 1994.’ 1 9 But nothing has actually been done. This is not surprising. How do the British state and the Conservative Party now decide to build an industrial strategy? Does the British state have people in its upper echelons who believe in the economically active state (except […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] his side kick Andy Wigmore (business interests in Belize), this seems an avenue at least worth exploring.16 As does Arron Banks’ October 2014 switch from being a Conservative donor to funding UKIP. When doing this, though, Banks and his colleagues were arriving late at the party. Sir Jack Hayward, the most prominent UK exponent […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] from exaggerating, if anything McBride understated Murdoch’s influence, the extent to which modern Britain has been shaped in his image, and the way politicians, both Labour and Conservative, were willing to be of service. Most of the reviews of Hack Attack have focussed on the dramatic story of how Davies and the Guardian hunted […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] 157) There are two ‘perfects’ and a ‘rational’ in that sentence. I have never met a ‘perfect’ where human arrangements were concerned (and little rationality); nor have conservative thinkers. Theirs is a generally pessimistic view of human potential: that we’re flawed and likely to mess things up and the best we can hope for […]