Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] business. As late as 2000, for example, Pence had denied any link between smoking and cancer: ‘despite the hysteria from the political class and media, smoking doesn’t kill’ (p. 94). Now a cynic might well believe that this particular example of his hostility towards science was somehow informed by the fact that his brother […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] before he came to trial. He was among those who broke into the Senate and was filmed calling the police Nazis and inciting the crowd to ‘ kill ‘em’. His appointment shows that the Trump regime is consolidating itself as a reactionary, repressive authoritarian regime that has no intention of allowing itself to be […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the Cenotaph so that Arabs feel included favourably in the nation’s history. It seeks to create empathy. This is why, in the documentary Bin Laden Shoot to Kill shown on Channel 4, the Americans changed the name of the dog accompanying its forces to ‘Cairo’. The Daily Telegraph review, 7 September 2011, said its […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did have on Khan before 7/7, it is only if you believe that he […]

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