Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

Articles

• The view from the bridge -- Robin Ramsay
• Statement of Colin Wallace -- Colin Wallace
• You get the report you pay for -- Colin Challen
• The Christian Right Revisited -- John Newsinger
• Who pays the piper? Funding the Labour Party -- Colin Challen
• The Scottish National Party and the American State -- Brian Kemp
• Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State -- Scott Newton
• The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators -- Garrick Alder

Book reviews

• Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton -- reviewed by Garrick Alder
• Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones -- reviewed by John Newsinger
• David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer -- reviewed by John Newsinger
• Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin -- reviewed by Garrick Alder
• Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff -- reviewed by Simon Matthews
• Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps -- reviewed by John Booth
• In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan -- reviewed by John Newsinger