Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] and social system, and dominated political institutions and public discourse to such an extent that democracy and freedom of speech were empty phrases. The public had a vote, but it did not matter what party they elected, as they were all controlled by ‘the unseen, non representative power Finance’. The final stage of liberalism’s […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] following: ‘etting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum’ – I presume from this that he has no confidence that a ‘leave’ campaign would win a second vote – and, ‘upport me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works’ (emphasis added) – look out, folks . . . he’s […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Hartlepool on the night of the election of 2001 and watched the Hartlepool Labour Party members cheer as Peter Mandelson entered the sports centre in which the vote count was taking place. Labour’s policies? They just looked thrilled to have a celebrity as their MP. It is all deeply depressing at one level – […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)