Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] GREATNESS’. (pp. 229-234) Indeed, so Christian in its achievements has the Trump Presidency been, Strang just cannot understand why the one in five evangelicals who did not vote for him in 2016 have not rallied to him since. They obviously do not know him. He is not the dissolute man he was, but is […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] failed to address the growing popular feeling against continued European Union membership. For many Labour members ‘being European’ trumped political practicalities. Marching in support of a People’s Vote wearing a ‘Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit’ T-shirt didn’t amount to a winning electoral strategy in 2019. ‘Take Back Control’ and ‘Get Brexit Done’, by contrast, suggested […]

The Blair Supremacy A study in the politics of Labour’s party management by Lewis Minkin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of competing interests. The first chapters of Minkin’s book explore the complex relationship between reformist elements during John Smith’s leadership, particularly in the run-up to the 1993 vote on introducing OMOV – One Member, One Vote. The manoeuvres about how to give ordinary members a greater say in the party’s affairs took on epic […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issues, that two Republicans actually voted against her. For the first time in the history of the US Senate, the Vice President had to use his casting vote to carry an appointment to the Cabinet. Pence is also close to her brother, Erik Prince – the founder of the notorious Blackwater mercenary company – […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] again in November 1964.6 On p. 70 of his book (see footnote 2) Mr Margolick records how, as Eisenhower’s VicePresident, Richard Nixon had also courted the black vote in the 1950s, manoeuvres which included joining the NAACP and making ostentatious fact-finding visits to Africa. Dr King, watching Nixon’s careful repositioning, presciently observed: 6 Continues […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]

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[…] dead and Amanda shooting herself.13 The America Whitelash led to the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 – albeit with a minority of the popular vote, we must always remember. Even with Trump defeated in the 2020 election, Lowery nevertheless concludes that ‘it’s hard to look at the horizon and not see […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nationalists could all be put back in the bottle and the whole terrible experience could be put behind them. Instead Trump became President, despite losing the popular vote quite decisively, installed in office by the Electoral College. For the Republican establishment, this posed a serious problem. Did they continue to oppose Trump, did they […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] maps the virtual tripling in party membership that liberated its finances from years of indebtedness and assorted financial embarrassments5 that saw Labour take a 40 per cent vote share in the 2017 general election.6 Two years earlier under Ed Miliband’s leadership Labour had barely topped 30 per cent and Corbyn’s many party foes in […]

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