Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] of the ‘Boris-haters’ who have done their best to use his character – i.e. his dishonesty, his irresponsibility, his unreliability, his selfishness – to discredit him. The BBC, the Guardian and Polly Toynbee are particularly guilty in this regard; but Matthew Parris and Max Hastings on the right get a mention as well. They […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks Philip M. Coupland London: Routledge, 2016, £30, p/b David Sivier This is a sympathetic study of Jorian Jenks, one of the great pioneers of the modern Green movement and advocate of organic agriculture.1 He was also […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] included General Abdul Rashid Dostum (now the Afghan Vice-President) who had a close working relationship with US SF Operational Detachment Alpha 595.18 The money that John Simpson’s BBC report shows are in the 10,000 Afghani denomination which would, at the time, have had an approximate value of $150 per banknote. A conservative estimate would […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the great credit boom of 1972/3, which triggered inflation, at . 8 9 See, for example, . or 10 Not to be confused with the host of BBC TV’s Masterchef. This Torode was a staffer at the Guardian. He left Labour, joined the Social Democratic Party and stood as an SDP candidate in the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] 4 5 See ‘Otto Warmbier’s North Korea roommate speaks out’, Washington Post 15 June 2017 at or . Typical of this limited coverage is the one minute BBC interview with him which can be seen at . 6 See, for instance, Gerry Shih, ‘Gung-ho culture at tour agency Warmbier used on North Korea trip’ […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] a base in Crete ended in ignominious defeat on 1 June with 23,000 UK troops killed or captured and 12 ships sunk.) See above footnote 49. The BBC History Magazine May 2001 (cited in Padfield) quotes a Margaret Baird, wife of the farmer who owned the land where Hess crashed: ‘the police was ordered […]