The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he started a new series, ‘The Simon Dee Show’, in January 1970. On 28 February 1970 Dee hosted an episode in which he interviewed George Lazenby and Diana Rigg, the stars of the then current James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. Lazenby, who was managed by Ronan O’Rahilly, used his appearance on […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] remaining submerged for a fortnight). All in all though, this is a cracking though depressing read. Garrick Alder is a journalist. His book on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales will be published by Picnic Books. 3 warranted further coverage: Rupert Murdoch, for example, whose transnational lifestyle and prodigious tax evasion could easily […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] carnage was happening in leafy suburbs or commuter villages, it would have been sorted a long time ago. Campbell, who is credited with calling the late Princess Diana the ‘People’s Princess’, comes up with more ‘P’s in his latest book. We are assailed, he says, by polarisation, populism and post-truth politics as the ‘slow […]

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