Lobster goes to the movies!

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] down Shylock with guile and subtlety in The Merchant of Venice, Barney Greenwald reducing Commander Queeg to a gibbering mess in The Caine Mutiny and the gentle liberal Henry Fonda destroying Lee J Cobb to get his “not-guilty” vote in 12 Angry Men.’ I doubt if the publicity machine behind Frost/Nixon could have put […]

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Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast … Read more

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Thinking about the Falklands

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[…] on the sinking of the Belgrano is a mistake. With all due respect to the dead, there are more serious issues at stake. RR Oil… The received liberal version of the Falklands War now seems to be something like this. By a combination of cockups (the information on the threat of an Argentine invasion […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] the briefest acquaintance with the FOI schemes of other countries would show that they are always used by the media; and in even a minimalist version of liberal democracy the media plays a role as the primary informer of the citizen. The ongoing Di show The report of Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation […]

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Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] control of economic policy in New Zealand and imposed on it a bizarre amalgam of the IMF restructuring programme traditionally imposed on the Third World, traditional neo- liberal notions of free markets, and Mrs Thatcher’s lasting memorial, selling off public assets are bargain prices. The oddity of what they did can’t be exaggerated. IMF […]

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Briefly

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A People’s History of American Empire: a […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] economic crises. From the perspective of the British establishment the great merit of Brandon was, first, his ability through his Sunday Times articles to carry to the liberal intelligentsia the case for the special relationship, and secondly, his talent for delivering to senior British politicians and diplomats his well-founded insights into what their opposite […]

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Everything is going to change

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00   I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far … Read more

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The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] or preferably confine to history, socialist or social democratic values of solidarity and collective action. They were intent upon the permanent establishment of a new market-driven, neo- liberal economic order based upon Thatcherite beliefs in individualism and the unquestioned merits of private and corporate capital enterprise. An important section of Milne’s work tackles the […]

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New Labour, new fascism?

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Tony Blair’s rhetoric is heavily if unconsciously littered with fascist buzz words: NATION, NEW, RENEWAL and so on. But there is a greater similarity than single words: Blair frequently expresses ideas which have a remarkable similarity to those of Oswald Mosley. To demonstrate this, I have compiled a series of quotes from Blair and Mosley. … Read more

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