[…] published by Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull, HU5 3JB. ISSN: 0964-0436 Previous Lobsters 9, 10, 13, are £1.25 each (UK); $3.00 (US/Canada); £2.00 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22 are £2.25 each (UK); $4.50 (US/Canada); £3.50 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 19 is £4.50 […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping […]
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the […]
[…] ‘stacking’ under the guise of free markets clearly cannot be obvious or overt, but will continue nevertheless. Why else would the government feel compelled to publish a new Competition White Paper to combat cartels? And why else would the European Parliament, in defence of the single market, want to hold an inquiry into the […]
[…] the response of the British left media to my pamphlet, The Clandestine Caucus. I sent review copies to every British left journal I could trace (except the New Statesman; why waste the stamp?) and to date the only one to review it has been the journal of the Socialist Party – and their reviewer […]
Jon Ronson New York: Simon and Schuster,2001 $24.00 London: Picador, 2001, £16 (hb) Picador, 2002, £7.99 (pb) This is the book of the TV series on Channel 4 in 2001. Through a series of encounters Ronson presents various aspects of the current, predominantly American, conspiracy theory culture. A bit like Louis Theroux, Ronson tries […]
[…] of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at an intimate little social gathering in the basement restaurant of the Wilner […]
[…] never thought I’d see was, ‘Time to come clean over the army’s role in the Dirty War’, atop a piece by John Ware in the 25 April New Statesman. This is the John Ware who, with David McKittrick, did the big smear job on Colin Wallace in the Independent in September 1987. Then he […]
[…] and has not yet found a role.’ This is always quoted as being a great profundity. In fact it was just nonsense. In 1945 America became the new school bully and Britain became the school bully’s best friend. That has been this country’s chief international role. Being the bully’s friend has its upside – […]
[…] of North Sea oil and gas but, hey, there’s always ‘the knowledge economy’. And if that fails, something else will turn up, won’t it? Won’t it? Notes 1 The Sunday Telegraph (Business) August 15 2004. 2 Bootle used to be the chief economist for the Midland Bank, before Midland was taken over. The […]
