The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] entering related professional fields. From an ideological perspective, it also demonstrated the apprentice’s soundly socialist character, having achieved personal development through willing and voluntary participation in collective labour. After more than a year’s work, Olaf Neitsch completed his apprenticeship and became a qualified ‘journeyman’ professional. The journey he had in mind was a short […]

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

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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) FREE

[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) FREE

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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.

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Callaghan’s government losing a vote of confidence two days earlier. As a result, a general election had immediately been called and the INLA may have predicted that Labour were going to lose power.2 A Conservative win would have lead to Neave – who wanted to replace the Callaghan/Mason policy of containing and marginalizing the […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] property relations and education guaranteed the reproduction of the system. Known in Marxist literature as a ‘comprador class’, it would tend to welcome the inward investment and labour which facilitated a lop-sided national development privileging its own extensive economic interests.5 Money, the greater part of it from London, therefore flowed into extractive and agricultural […]

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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] American reformers raised inheritance taxes to prevent the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy, and engaged in massive trust-busting. Modernising urban-planning systems could lower housing costs, and deregulating labour markets would help create good jobs for “excess” elites. David Goodhart in his TLS review15 refers to the cleansing effect of the extermination of a the […]

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

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

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