Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Christopher Simpson, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1994. This is the Simpson who wrote Blowback. This is hard to describe. From the cover blurb: the author demonstrates how the government-funded psychological warfare programs of the Cold War years under-wrote the academic studies that formed the basis for much of modern communication research.’ […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] For those who have been following the story there’s not much here that will come as a surprise, but it may have some use as background reading for those new to the subject. Notes 1 It’s welcome to see the ideas around Colin Campbell’s ‘peak oil’ thesis being incorporated into this argument. See for example,
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] followed the lead of bosses in my mould, who demonstrated the system by their own greedy example through rewards and punishments calculated to perpetuate it.’ (p. 204) Notes This was also a feature of the British empire. Scott Newton refers to this happening in Egypt. See his Historical Notes in Lobster 42, p. 27. […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] with a remarkable knowledge not just of the man and his works, but also of his reception among academics, politicians and the general reading public. In this new collection of essays, he declares himself to be one of those who insist that Orwell has to be seen as a democratic socialist, as someone who […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] young son watching the ex-president on television. After a panel’s worth of contemplation, the boy asks, ‘He’s lying now, isn’t he?’ The parents beam with pride. ‘A new generation recoils!’ In this study of Nixon’s image-making, and America’s perception of it, David Greenberg recoils not at all. This could be seen as academic neutrality, […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] the size of nos. 9, 10, 13: bigger issues, such as 11, 12, 14, are counted as doubles and deducted from subscriptions accordingly. Costs UK (£4.00); US/Canada/Australia/ New Zealand £7.00 Europe £6.00 These prices include postal charges, airmail on on-UK. Non-UK subscribers please note: from this issue onwards we will accept only International Money […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99 I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] copy the moves which were made when MI5’s chief target was so-called subversives. It was not just your actual subversives who were monitored, but people who k new or associated with, and might support or be influenced by subversives. Organisations had to be be ‘checked out’ to make sure they didn’t contain subversives or […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] to carry out his research wherever it may lead him, and condemns the use of intimidation and guilt by association to silence discussion.’. On October 15 the New Statesman and Society published a piece by its deputy editor, Paul Anderson, which surveyed the dispute with Searchlight and took O’Hara’s side. Gerry Gable replied in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] opposite problem.)(5) An electronic voting system gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Which is bad enough until you learn that only 638 people voted. In New York, voting machine problems surfaced in a contested state Senate race. Elections officials disclosed in court that seals were missing or broken on 22 impounded voting […]
