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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] been a slow news day when the newspapers put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Here, for example, is his memo to general secretary Larry Whitty dated 19 September 1986: ‘If you are able to see John Booth today please bear in mind the following: 1) NUJ Chapel is meeting this morning and we need to see the outcome of that meeting first; 2) John has briefed a reporter […]

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