The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] I don’t know what she is talking about but we get the picture: like Ussher, Smith thinks she knows which butts need to be kissed and doesn’t mind saying so. If you copy America, you get . . . America Will Hutton described Prime Minister Cameron’s December vetoing of the proposed revision of the […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] involvement of Gade. Why did Gibbs stay with the US naval attaché for a week? Wasn’t there somewhere inconspicuous in Brussels he could have waited? Bearing in mind Gade’s Norwegian connections, and friendship with Roosevelt, this points to a desire by the US to try and prevent an extension of the war to Norway. […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] that the assault on US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo-Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] involvement of Gade. Why did Gibbs stay with the US naval attaché for a week? Wasn’t there somewhere inconspicuous in Brussels he could have waited? Bearing in mind Gade’s Norwegian connections, and friendship with Roosevelt, this points to a desire by the US to try and prevent an extension of the war to Norway. […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] The sinecure is alive and well in boardrooms. Non-executive directors are meant to bring some particular benefit, for example contacts or expertise, and a certain independence of mind to a board. In practice, and especially with large companies, non-execs have a pretty dismal record of bringing neither particular benefit nor independence of mind to […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 52 One attempted […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 52 One attempted […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] I don’t know what she is talking about but we get the picture: like Ussher, Smith thinks she knows which butts need to be kissed and doesn’t mind saying so. If you copy America, you get…..America W ill Hutton described Prime Minister Cameron’s December vetoing of the proposed revision of the Lisbon Treaty in […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] historically as well in philosophically, this is a bracing warm-up class for the overdue heavy lifting this country’s politics badly needs. Like The Return of the Public Mind, the latest book from Chris Hedges is well footnoted and indexed. Hedges has covered wars around the world, is a columnist for Truthdig.com and a widely […]

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