Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in their business dealings generally. They will attempt to insure against losses. The general cost of borrowing money will almost certainly rise as banks become more wary. New investment may become impossible. This is what caused the Asian Crash in the late nineties. Far Eastern companies looked a good bet from their accounts, but […]

The Lexit delusion

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this new departure. In practice this had amounted to a Parliamentary debate which had ended with a majority of MPs in favour of joining. In the 1974 General […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Sunak, the Adam Smith Institute and others. The issue clearly is not that the UK doesn’t have any free ports now, or that this is some new device for re-booting the economy. What matters is how many you have, how you regulate them, and That the direction of travel might be to deliberately […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Christian Right, give us some insight into this remarkable phenomenon and its likely consequences. The importance of the Christian Right in the United States is not new. It has been a growing influence within the Republican Party since the 1970s, and played an important role in both the Ronald Reagan and George W […]

Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013)

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] none of that. He had no record of political activity but he was determined not to go to his grave with a murder conviction. His solicitors located new witnesses who were present in the police station on the night of Quinn’s death and a major World in Action programme was made on the case. […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] maturity with a sophisticated knowledge of government-to- government betrayal, many of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] whose indoctrination is essential for system maintenance. In fact the counterEstablishment draws most of its support from that most heavily propagandised and indoctrinated class, consumers of the New York Times and Washington Post as well as less conspicuous Establishment media. Other countries in Europe have their equivalents, many of which defer to the US […]

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