Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford; and Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Rhode Island, have all praised it.5 There is a summary of the book’s thesis on the LSE website6 and a pseudonymous review from a Scottish […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] had the air of a depressed man, knowing it may be too late to rebalance the UK economy and defeat the forces given freedom by Thatcher, Blair, Brown and successive governors of the Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] by Epstein, launched his One Laptop per Child project in 2005. Addressing education and literacy in the non-developed world, and endorsed by many politicians (including notably, Gordon Brown), it ended in 2014 without coming anywhere near meeting its objectives. Similarly, a Global Hackathon involving Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Microsoft and many others, to ‘solve’ the […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: Dr Sargant and Mr Sleep The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal Jon Stock London: The Bridge Street Press/Little Brown, 2025 416 pp., bibliography, notes, index, £25 h/b. Anthony Frewin In the late 1950s and 1960s Dr William Sargant was the media’s go-to expert on everything – from psychiatry and mental illness to […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Records of US Army Commands: Records Relating to Spandau Prison, 1947- 
 1987., DOD, Editor. 1987, National Archives and Records Administration, Tapes 1-36 77 Penn-Barwell, J., K. Brown, and C. Fries, ‘High velocity gunshot injuries to the 
 extremities: management on and off the battlefield’, Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine, 2015. 8: pp. 312–317. […]

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