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[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] discussed the attitude of the UK government toward joining the EEC on 15 October. Lemass thought a Labour government would be harder to deal with than a Conservative. Kennedy thought Labour would do more to get the UK into EEC. The US view was that Wilson would be more positive about Europe than Gaitskell. […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tank’ was shut down after the Charity Commissioners said in 2010 that its primary objective appeared to be ‘promoting a political policy is closely associated with the Conservative party’. Ms Bertin, a former banker, had her £25,000 salary at Atlantic Bridge paid by Pfizer, the giant US pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1997 by North […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with the White House. He introduced Hunt to Hughes’s security Magruder testimony, SWH (see note 14) Book 2, pp. 789-90. The Republicans had heard a rumor from conservative columnist Kevin Phillips that O’Brien or the DNC were taking kickbacks from convention vendors. (Magruder pp. 190-191). Confirmation could provide derogatory material with which to silence […]

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[…] such ideas in this country, our authors, like most people, are unable to change their minds. Other recent examples of this phenomenon have been displayed by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris and Gerard Baker, former editor of The Wall Street Journal. They devoted their columns in The Times to 1 Laffer is well known […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 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 […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared to allow social liberal positions); and how […]

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