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 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 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 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 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, […]
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 […]