Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] that fits S peaking at an event just before International Women’s Day, Women and Equalities Minister Nicky Morgan MP declared that ‘women fought and died for the vote’. Ms Morgan was talking out of her arse and doing it so blatantly that it’s hard to believe it was accidental. The Suffragettes – she can […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] for the resolution but without enthusiasm, without optimism, without joy, and without the feeling that we were contributing to the adoption of a constructive measure.’ ‘After the Vote,’ Time, (29 March, 1954), p. 32. 26 Winter 2010 A rbenz turned to the welcoming ears of the Soviets, who obliged by sending him arms through […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] again, he seems to have a somewhat rosy view of the past. The Conservative Party did not begin electing its leader until 1965, when MPs got to vote; and 1998, when ordinary party members got a vote – and even now those members have to choose from candidates chosen by the MPs. As for […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] enthusiastic crowd are chanting ‘Drop dead, media’ while they wait for the great man to appear. She looks around and spots a new T-shirt: SHE’S A CUNT, VOTE TRUMP. The man wearing it ‘is with his wife and three kids’.1 Support for Trump seems completely unaffected by his boasting of how he has routinely […]

The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] of measures designed to clean up after the financial crisis, those US politicians who received greater contributions from the financial services industry were statistically more likely to vote for legislation that transferred wealth from taxpayers to bankers.’4 All together now: no shit, Sherlock! Bank of England official says: ‘Too big to fail’ produces ‘the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] take the pound out of the European exchange rate mechanism.44 After that recession Blair and Brown had no need to embrace Thatcherism: the electorate were going to vote for them whatever they proposed. The three big economic messes which the electorate took notice of between 1970 and 2007/8 were caused by Conservative governments; and […]

Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue

[…] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]

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