The Dispossessed: The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival by Christophe Guilluy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: The Dispossessed The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival Christophe Guilluy Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, p/b, £15 (approx.) Simon Matthews This slim volume, 133 pages, is by a French geographer,1 who has developed a theory of ‘peripheral France’. He comments on the growth in holiday homes by the coast, and the use of properties […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] there’s big money for ex-leaders there, too. George W Bush has always had enormous family sources to draw upon from his father’s post-White House dealings, and Bill Clinton has reaped huge rewards from speechmaking around the world. And not just former presidents: Henry Kissinger is still making piles as a consultant almost 40 years […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] wrong-footed by the Goldstone Report’s findings. The Obama administration in Washington DC made clear its rejection of the Report from the very beginning. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would later boast of how she had ‘defended Israel from isolation . . . including opposing the biased Goldstone report’.13 Labour were caught out, however, and […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Tittle-Tattle Tom Easton Balls to the wall The Daily Mirror neatly summed up the post-election fate of two of New Labour’s so-called big beasts when its 15 June headline read: ‘Ed Balls has a new job: Ex-shadow chancellor follows David Miliband to America after election defeat’.1 Milband’s job with the International Rescue Committee (see Lobsters […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] Africa.’ 7 Turki had mentioned the Safari Club in a 2002 speech at his old university in Washington DC. Prince Turki and the future US president Bill Clinton had both graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1968. Turki told the Americans: In 1976, after the Watergate […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess Sherman McCall, Phillip R. Pittman, Richard Wahl, Francis Powers, Jan Cemper-Kiesslich * This paper refutes all objections to our DNA identification of Rudolf Hess.1 Inter alia we will: 1. Reveal the reporting error prompting many false charges. 2. Explain how Hess’s chest scars were overlooked. 3. Explain the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 36 Amen to that; but this is the man who, while its American correspondent, ran into the Telegraph all the nonsense coming out of the Republican’s anti- Clinton conspiracy. See . 37 Con Coughlin, ‘Can we still trust the CIA?’ at . ‘intelligence’ linking 9/11 to Iraq to provide the pretext for the invasion […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the West) has meant that such prohibitions have been half-hearted at best. In any event since the installation of Ronald Reagan as POTUS, followed by William Jefferson Clinton a few actors later, the few controls – even public condemnation – have been eliminated. To the extent it was ever seriously weakened, the power of […]

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