Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] review of Tom Bower’s appalling attack dog biography of Corbyn.1 But the Tory press maligning the Labour Party is nothing new. One has only to call to mind the Zinoviev Letter to appreciate what they will do to damage Labour and to hold on to power. It is also worth remembering Churchill’s 1945 claim […]
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 […]
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 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] the February 2000 press release, mentioned above. The old mantra, ‘If you stick to the truth you won’t have to remember whatever lie you’ve told’ comes to mind. 9 have not done. My disagreement with him is that I don’t believe he could possibly now remember an unredacted name on an MI6 intelligence document […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]