The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] have an ‘insidious agenda that is demonic to its core’. George Soros is, inevitably, ‘the undisputed ringleader of this globalist cabal’. (p. 118). In this universe, Hillary Clinton is inevitably cast as ‘Jezebel’! (p. 132) And, of course, Trump has also taken a stand against the ‘environmental extremists’ with their fake warnings of global […]

The Solipsist Revolution: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] election campaign for his first term had begun, Stone registered a donation-seeking website called StoptheSteal.org and used it to pump out claims that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would cheat to win the election if the results looked too close to call. Which was exactly what George W. Bush had been accused of doing […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] was accepted by almost everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats ( Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] dough One of the central threads of the original QAnon nonsense was that senior figures in the US Democratic Party in Washington (including then presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, obviously) were part of a paedophile network in the 5 US and that it was this network which really ran America. The idea of a paedophile […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] no interest in the economy – as far as I know, he had no economic knowledge at all – and left it all to Brown. Copying the Clinton Democrats of the 1990s, Brown believed that Britain’s future lay in the financial services, the so-called knowledge economy and immigrants who would do the shitwork the […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] very president since Reagan has been obliged to follow the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a […]

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[…] election campaign for his first term had begun, Stone registered a donation-seeking website called StoptheSteal.org and used it to pump out claims that Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton would cheat to win the election if the results looked too close to call. Which was exactly what George W. Bush had been accused of doing […]

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