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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] not believe him. ‘He argued that what young Klitschko had seen in America were fake cities set up to deceive people’. (emphasis added) He only changed his mind when Klitschko Jnr took him to the USA to see for himself. Stephen Dorril had a similar experience circa 1990 (as I recall it). He told […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] issue 28 I have argued that Chauncey Holt 26 Stone’s book is reviewed in Lobster 66 at . 27 ‘Roger Stone vs. the world: inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster’ at I pointed out Caro’s omission of Estes in Lobster 65 at the end of 28 probably wasn’t the ‘third tramp’ on […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: Some Warren Commission stuff……… Anthony Frewin A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination Philip Shenon New York: Henry Holt & Co, 2013 Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 625 pps. The subtitle is misleading. It should read, more correctly, The Secret History of the Warren Commission. But hold on, that’s not even […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] . 10 8 chaired the Jewish Leadership Council, a key body in promoting the ‘Labour anti-semitism’ scare?11 This is just one of many questions that come to mind reading this tour d’horizon of the much-travelled diarist. But first he must be thanked for telling us so much about the workings of UK government and […]