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 […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] 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 […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] These are serious questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: ‘They’re looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of huge international […]

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 […]

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 […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] saying a sharp shooter in a hotel overlooking the White House could pick JFK off in the garden, and he even names a possible assassin, a Jack Brown (who he?). Had Milteer described some unique way of killing JFK and had that transpired, then his statement would have carried some weight, but it doesn’t. […]

View from the 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 […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] their peers’. (pp. 1-2) And so on. This is just so The book under review here is the latest in a series of volumes that started with Brown at 10 (2010) and continued with Cameron at 10 (2015), May at 10 (2019) and now Johnson at 10. Will the next volume have to combine […]

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