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 […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to an ad hoc panel to examine the question of how some material still held by the National Archives should be declassified with the FOI Act in mind. Mr Brown had put his finger deftly on the point that had alarmed Mr Blair in 2005, and to which Mr Blair only confessed in his […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the much bruited morale and good humour of the little English people in their slums – ‘never mind, dear, put on the kettle and we’ll have a nice cup of tea’1 – under the impact of Blitzkrieg. That’s the popular British version. The saturation […]

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), […]

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 […]

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