Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the transformation of the judiciary (the creation of supra-national trade dispute bodies to arbitrate on trade issues and the subordination of the judiciary to the executive/politicians); – new limits on the regulatory powers of central governments (particularly in environmentalism); – and ‘free schools’/the privatisation of schools and student loans, etc. Brexit fits neatly into […]

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[…] 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 […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the United States on 9/11 and many more have died since. Yet more continue to suffer the consequences of inhaling the toxic dust that billowed across New York City that day. Some first responders and others working and living near Ground Zero barely alive now will have died come the 16th anniversary in […]

A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance

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[…] 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 […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of changes to the existing procedures would arrive and I had to get the appropriate files out of the cupboard, remove the old pages and insert the new ones. When the British Army ended up in Northern Ireland, they went to their cupboard and took out the file marked ‘insurgency’. Part of the kit […]

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