Governing from the Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment by Thomas Hippler

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] (2015), has raised some interesting points. With apologies for putting O’Brien’s argument somewhat crudely, he argues that while Germany’s war in the East was certainly the more labour intensive, which accounts for the Wehrmacht’s huge death toll on that front, it was much more capital intensive in the West. The demands on Germany of […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] on this occasion I could see how it might have been possible for some ignorant KGB officer to have confused DS Harley’s name with that of the Labour politician, although I thought it unlikely. In any event, the context was completely wrong, although I do admit that in Moscow I often sounded off about […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago mayor Anton Cermak – died when his […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] to a balance of political forces in the USA. This was characterised by the hegemony of Keynesian economics and by the existence of a strong, well organised labour movement committed to backing the New Deal and its successor programmes – Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society. This historic moment ended […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] this, all political parties continue to follow the example of Boris Johnson and assert that they can have their cake and eat it. Those who think the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an exception should look at his interview with Robert Peston.16 In my view this is no time for equivocation. We are […]

Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] about his fellow correspondents in Berlin and the various proprietors they worked for. Certainly, Rothermere seems to have been the worst, although Clement Attlee did apparently describe Lord Beaverbrook as ‘the only evil man I ever met’. (p. 121) John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the necessary pantomimes to rubberstamp decisions taken in Whitehall. On the other hand, this was 1984: the Thatcher regime was still being challenged by the left; the Labour Party had not then embraced the ‘Washington consensus’; the American banks had not completed their take-over of British economic thinking; the Cold War had been revived […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the German industrial […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection’, CNBC, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at . 36 See ‘Don’t call us mercenaries, says British company with lucrative contracts and cheap labour’, the Guardian, 17 May 2004 at . Justification for this is that the £35 rate is very good compared to the potential home country rates of […]

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