Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] with North Korea, Iran and Russia. Instead, we are left with the thought that the couple of weeks of intrigue that ‘did’ for Eden were essentially a coup carried out within UK politics by an establishment that regards cleaving to the US as an essential ritual. Was this the first overt change carried out […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] publishing Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump (2018), Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s ‘Witch Hunt’ (2019) and Coup D’Etat: Exposing Deep Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump (2020). Forthcoming he has an ‘exposé’ of the neo-Marxist, anti-capitalist global warming hoax, The Truth […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been a member of the 2016 Shadow Cabinet ‘chicken coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] just in the sense that it brought about a shift in the British political economy. It also seems to have had some of the qualities of a coup d’état, in that since that time we have been unable to alter the trajectory of the state, economy and society, whose journey to the market order […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] there what I wrote in Lobster 32. The first one is ‘Ukraine 2014: The Tipping Point of Terror’ at . 80 ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The Soft Power Ecosystem and Beyond’ at or 81 See, for example, the long analysis by Ivan Katchanovski, at . 82 28 the […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]

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