View from the bridge

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[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is Senator Ron Johnson, the current senior US senator from Wisconsin.2 Both have come to wider attention recently thanks to the efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fear, now that 9/11 and ‘terrorism’ have begun losing their effectiveness. (pp. 96/7) So there you have it: the pandemic was a myth. You may argue, as Conservative politicians have begun to do, that leaving the pandemic response to the scientists was a mistake, and that lockdown was unnecessary. But 200,000 dead in the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] been involved with the National Union of Students in the early 1980s. He 33 recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]

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