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

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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 […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] plan to seize the great bridges across the Rhine delta. To his strategic concerns were added more personal ones: ‘I was also worried about the state of mind of General Browning and my brother officers. There seemed to be a general assumption that the war was virtually over and that one last dashing stroke […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] because it reveals that the cuntocratic world has certainly been made by cunts, and its principles are therefore to be found within the modifications of these cunts’ mind. Universities are there to hide knowledge using a sophisticated form of administrative pedagogical cuntocracy that involves the selection and employment of ignorant, lazy cuntocrats to run […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] cack-handed notions of Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and others, and look to elected, accountable, governments to secure a better future. Simon Matthews’ new book – Free Your Mind! Giovanni “Tinto” Brass, “Swinging London” and the 60s Pop Culture Scene – will be published by Oldcastle Books in April. See . As with Thiel and […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] stupid person, so this reviewer’s conclusion is that the latter interpretation is the right one. It’s an irreducible fact of life that there’s nothing that focuses the mind as decisively as a looming deadline, and, on the face of it, it appears that the Singularity serves as Dugin’s McGuffin for galvanising the minds of […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] only read fragments. O’Brien recounts tales of her sexual abuse at the hands of various American politicians. The subtitle is The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave. In O’Brien’s view of the universe, the rich and powerful men of America need mind-controlled sex slaves to act out their fantasies. Alas, all […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] before ‘Robert’ fesses up and admits he’d lied and was the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] is at 2 scepticism (given full wind on social media) when post-election stories about anomalous results started to trickle in. The example that is foremost in my mind is the constituency of Bedford Borough, my place of birth and a key Tory-Labour marginal. Here it was reported that a sack containing 5,000 extra votes […]

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