Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] or for the immense grammatical howlers such as ‘My Cameo Appearance on BBC Today programme, to discuss the Rhodes statue, not the Virus Panic’.40 (emphasis added) Bungled coup joke (stolen from a wag on Twitter) A spoof Yelp-type review of mercenary company ‘Silvercorp USA’:41 ‘Friendly service, clean office but got caught while planning a […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential election trying to enlist the support […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the Generals made clear, repeatedly, that they would not countenance Trump trying to overthrow the election result. They refused to be a part of the kind of coup Trump was clearly plotting – which would have put in place an authoritarian regime modelled on those he so openly admired. If they had made it […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] was Owen Jones on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with […]