Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

Articles

Running Rings -- Colin Challen
The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants -- Colin Challen
The Secret Team -- Robin Ramsay
The view from the bridge -- Robin Ramsay

Book reviews

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin -- reviewed by John Newsinger
Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy -- reviewed by Simon Matthews
Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre -- reviewed by Nick Must
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund -- reviewed by Colin Challen
Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel -- reviewed by John Newsinger

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11 Feb

"Some of it is hard for a non-specialist reader. But it remains extraordinary to see a senior US military officer write a book subtitled 'The CIA and its Allies in Control of the US and the World'"

Robin Ramsay, on Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team"

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11 Feb

"What is so wrong with consultants that Reeves wants to cut back on them by half? Is it that their performance is sub par? Is it that they rip off the taxpayer by overcharging and taking excessive profits?"

Colin Challen, in "The Long Goodbye"

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An astronaut, a president, and their close encounter with George H.W. Bush.

A tale of high strangeness from Lobster #78, to mark the passing of Georgia Jim. Rest easy, old feller.