Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] only provoke further resistance; a view that Mitchell rejected comprehensively. You had to ‘fly the flag’, ‘whack or woo’ the tribes, let the Gollies know who was boss – and they would respect you for it. It was because they had forgotten this in Palestine and Cyprus, and now in Aden, that the British […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] president by accident. The Kennedys offered it to him as a kind of courtesy, assuming he would turn it down. (Why would he give up being the boss of the Senate for a useless, ceremonial post?) But he accepted 5 This is heavily implied in J. Evetts Haley’s A Texan Looks At Lyndon (Canyon, […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of international narcotics trafficking and policing of the global drug trade. The Strength of the Pack is the story of how the legacy of Anslinger, the FBN’s boss, and the contradictions between publicly proclaimed policies of interdiction and the actual policies of the national security state, have created an apparatus based on hypocrisy and […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] foot in Johnson’s expensive new press room in March 2021 she had been on quite a journey, one which might help explain a little of why her boss is still Mr Teflon. For anthropology graduate Stratton is a former Guardian political correspondent, appointed to the role by editor and fellow Cantambrian Alan Rusbridger.4 As […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] source notes, and the other following the text, I read that I had been a corrupt detective “in the pay of criminals such as south London gang boss Charlie Richardson”, and that while awaiting trial I had gone “into hiding for several months” and then had used a false passport in the name of […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] little fucker) among BP employees.13 According to Tom Bower, Browne ‘presided over a corporate court filled with sycophants and where there was an unhealthy glorification of a boss who enjoyed unlimited expenses….with even his teddy bear being flown at the company’s expense from California to London.’1 4 Browne attempted to give BP a ‘greenwash’, […]