Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (state institutions, traditional parties) or foreign (the EU, financial markets, the Bilderberg group……the list is long).’ Nougayrède’s piece was followed on 26 December by David Shariatmadari’s ‘A new theory of conspiracies’.2 This opened with an account of ‘Elliott, now 34, a “recovering” conspiracy theorist… …. turned his back on a worldview that always posits […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] that would hardly be a surprise. Perhaps he was simply seeking to be a part of the story. 13 Ray and Mary La Fontaine, Oswald Talked: the new evidence in the JFK Assassination (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1996) pp. 323-325. In the versions of the photographs on-line I cannot see this scar. 14 4 that […]

Also noticed

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Smoke down our lungs and smoke up our asses The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Allan M Brandt New York: Basic Books, 2009. 600 pp. Illustrations, references, sources, index. Allan M Brandt is, amongst other things, a Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard […]

A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, k new what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer 2010 that proclaims itself to be a study of the ‘Visionaries, rebels and […]

England’s forgotten uprising

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (London: Penguin Books, 1991), p. 881. 1 2 E. J. Hobsbawm and George Rudé, Captain Swing ( New York: Pantheon Books, 1968). 3 All the Year Round (London), xvii (1867), pp. 441-6. London: Richard Bentley, 1834 (with later revisions). Rookwood is chiefly remembered today, […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: ‘Crazytown’ John Newsinger Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was during the horror that was the First World War. He was ‘excited by war’ and ‘without war he knew there could be no glory – no real chance to emulate Napoleon, Nelson or his ancestor Marlborough’. ‘War sent the adrenalin spurting from his glands’. (pp. 168-169)2 But while he ‘loved’ war, he did […]

Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Praeger, to bring out a paperback edition. Gingrich pressed a copy on the Army Chief of Staff, General Schoomaker, who, in turn, gave a copy to the new US commander in Iraq, General Casey. By 2009, even the then Labour Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, a man for whom mediocrity was merely an aspiration, admitted […]

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