Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history by Scott Newton

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and economic underperformance spurred a search for more modern tools than public ownership and strong trade unions. That is fair enough, but it should be borne in mind that social democracy, as practised from Macmillan onwards, was to the right of the 1945 settlement. Hence the impatience of Labour romantics such as Michael Foot […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] ‘affordable’ colour-changing fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 28 8 Steele Dossier!29 Confirmation that our man was (at least willing to act as) a representative of MI6 comes from the transcript of the symposium ‘The Mind of the Hacker Insights from GCHQ, MI6 and Israeli Intelligence’.30 This shows the audience were told they would ‘be joined on stage by Arthur Snell from […]

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