Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] saga certainly played its part in creating the impression that Labour could not be trusted to run the economy competently, a view frequently promoted thereafter by the Conservative Party and then, in the 1990s, by ‘new’ Labour. The criticisms from the right were reinforced from the left by arguments that Wilson, his Chancellor Jim […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. On page 15 he describes Lesley Wooler as a member of the 62 […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] a functioning military concept for the US, which can be located in the evolution of US strategic doctrine. In the early 1980s, the first period of neo- conservative dominance in US politics, analysts of international relations were struck by similarities between the ‘new cold war’ prosecuted by the Reagan administration and the great power […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] a number of consultation papers and statements covering encryption and electronic commerce in recent years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) taking the lead role.(9) Both Conservative and Labour governments, in their 1997 and 1998 papers, proposed some form of key escrow system, in which a user’s private encryption key is held by […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] INC.(18) Rose then does a classic series of guilt-by-association smears. David Rose: ‘On the one hand, she has written for Pat Buchanan’s extreme right-wing journal, the American Conservative ….’ RR: I wonder if Rose has ever seen American Conservative? I hadn’t, so I looked at the on-line issue displayed in August and saw articles […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] was invited to have lunch with GKY and Eric Lancasterat the Caledonian Club in Halkin Street, SW1. Eric Lancaster was a Justice of the Peace and a Conservative trade unionist. Some time later I found that my name had appeared on Tory Action stationery as a committee member, which was a surprise. My work […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] button once again in the Middle East.() Welcome to Cameronia The final nail in the coffin of UK support for the neo-cons’ adventures was driven in by Conservative Party leader David Cameron. On the 2006 anniversary of 9-11, Cameron spoke to the British American Project (BAP). He produced the expected homilies about the US […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] by Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, a liberal in the Hullian tradition. Morgenthau left the Treasury and the post of Secretary was taken by Fred Vinson, a fiscally conservative mid-Western machine politician. White’s influence began to diminish (after the end of the war he came under suspicion of being a Soviet agent).(35) Power shift The […]