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Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] export earnings of manufacturing.’ And he concluded that ‘we need to be in the vanguard of reindustrialisation.’ Who is David Green? He is director of Civitas, a conservative (and Conservative) think tank. The Telegraph’s business pages have run many articles in the last year about manufacturing, past and present, some looking enviously at the […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] destiny and gender not the essence of human identity. I also learned that environmentalism was fundamentally recognition of indeterminacy. In other words, humans should be cautious and conservative (in the sense of conserving) because it really was impossible to determine the exact vector of any human action. If we were environmentally aware then that […]

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[…] Review of Books: ‘Real-term wages in Britain today are no higher than they were in 2005. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a succession of mostly Conservative politicians has sought to assure the British people that once the difficult bit (first austerity, then Brexit, then Covid) is behind us, the good times will […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There is also the determination of retired generals and politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties to cover up the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Without any shame whatsoever, the war was portrayed as being about the protection […]

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[…] former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too?16 Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the current leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a Union Jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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[…] and former colleague of Christopher Steele’. Since Steele was SIS, is Snell saying he was, too? Flag-waving On Times Radio on 31 May the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described Reform UK as ‘Corbynism with a union jack’. It isn’t true, of course, at least not yet: Nigel Farage is no Corbynista. […]

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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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] serve five years in prison for handling £440,000, allegedly part of a vast fortune stolen from Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it […]

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[…] (non-communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted as good anti-communists; it was the left or leftish media it needed to concentrate on. And in the UK, America’s most important […]

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