Garrick part one trial

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[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: Is there a ‘political class’? Scott Newton It has become fashionable to argue that Britain is in the grip of its own ‘political class’. Most recently the idea has been promulgated by Peter Oborne, in his 2007 book, The Triumph of the Political Class. I have been sceptical about this, remembering the dominance of Oxbridge-educated […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] wanted the author to make a judgement: this one, although denied, looks true. He never does. So we finish as we began: Opus Dei, officially, is a conservative, proselytising sect within the Catholic Church. Its critics, including some former members, say it is also a conspiracy; that while there is a public front, a […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] journalistic accounts of the Trump years, If Only They Didn’t Speak English and A Year at the Circus.1 These two resolutely mediocre volumes show how the BBC’s conservative even-handedness makes it unable to deal seriously with the likes of Trump and the MAGA movement. What of UnPresidented? This takes the form of a diary […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of online videos with […]

GArrick Kill chain 1 -7 pix copy 4

Lobster Issue

[…] suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of online videos with […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue

[…] thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] apologised to civil servants for his denigration of them but: One senior government source said: ‘Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall. But I blame him and the Conservative Party for 14 years of low pay, bad leadership and demoralisation which means we don’t have the right people in the right places.’7 How, one wonders, […]

Consultants Challen

Lobster Issue

[…] apologised to civil servants for his denigration of them but: One senior government source said: ‘Dominic Cummings was right about Whitehall. But I blame him and the Conservative Party for 14 years of low pay, bad leadership and demoralisation which means we don’t have the right people in the right places.’7 How, one wonders, […]

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