[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The Collapse of Globalism John Ralston Saul London: Atlantic Books, 2009. £9.99 Tom Easton The new afterword John Ralston Saul had added since the recession is almost worth the price of his incisive and wellwritten The Collapse of Globalism, first published four years ago. Try this, for example, on the 2008 […]
[PDF file]: […] to autumn lockdown.2 The authors write: ‘The dominating image is now of another Dickens character. “Something will turn up,’ says Wilkins Micawber. But it doesn’t. There are new graphs that show numbers of infections rising higher and higher. And deaths.’ What does eventually turn up after a cancelled Christmas and yet another lockdown is […]
[PDF file]: […] and Stewart Lansley open by describing the 2004 death in a helicopter crash of lawyer Page 129 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Stephen Curtis, ‘the man who k new too much’ about the oligarch world in which he had made a fortune. They follow it with pen portraits of the men who became very wealthy […]
[PDF file]: […] not the broader measure that seems always to register Eighties-style levels of joblessness). Yes, we were told, the old was dying in terms of work, but the new was being born in the ‘sunrise industries’ of the future. Ministers were forever lauding modestly-sized businesses with names such as Com-Vac or Micro-Digital, and even a […]
[PDF file]: Method and Madness The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza Norman G. Finkelstein London and New York: O/R books, 2014, £11/$17, p/b There is little I find more depressing than reading about Israel. Not just the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians (by a state founded for the victims of ethnic cleansing, FFS) […]
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[PDF file]: […] (only may) partly explain what followed. Groupie no.1 was worried by the fact that their sex had been unprotected, and by his reluctance to have an AIDS test afterwards. So she went along to the local police in order to ascertain whether he could be forced to have the test. Somehow that mushroomed into […]
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[…] Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus k new about CIA involvement in the drugs industry – the subject of the book Valentine was then researching.1 However the CIA interviews take up a very small […]
[PDF file]: […] right to roam that sits alongside property rights; but the freedom to roam and camp is enjoyed across the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries. The author notes all this more in sorrow than in anger and quotes Winston Churchill approvingly : It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It […]
