Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the NF saw themselves as ‘Strasserite’ but there is yet another reason why the NF cannot be simplistically labelled Strasserite: Strasserism was only ever an attitude of mind, and a partial one at that, as opposed to a strategy. Thus the real capitulation and defeat for Strasserism in Germany occurred not as late as […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found most interesting or useful. Only one warning light on the UK economy: inflation The Bank of England’s […]

Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. Defining (a) what Nikola Tesla actually did, and (b) if he can be rescued from the cranks, is one of the great Everests of historical […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] to PO Box 8345, Berkeley, CA 94707, or e-mail should suffice. Spotlight on Girard Harlan Girard, the American who turned me onto the electro-magnetic weaponry and mind control fields, and who has continued to organise and proselytize on these issues ever since, was the subject of an interview published in the American magazine […]

The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] on the latter ground alone is too often simply irrational, usually made for defensive reasons. (Just about the hardest thing most people can do is change their mind.) The Kennedy assassination and the UFO story are both examples of no-go areas for most respectable intellectuals. (When Scott Newton sent me the review essay on […]

Challenge to Democracy

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] but the effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, […]

A short history of Lobster

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[…] he bought and sold rare books. But he was also in touch with people in the US who were JFK assassination buffs – and no, I don’t mind the word buff; I’m a buff – and got JFK books for us. Steve lived 70 miles from me but we began corresponding and talking on […]

Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] and though it is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also […]

Value Wars: The Global Market versus the Life Economy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99   I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules and the peace of mind of the broadcasters with happy regularity. After Dark turned out to be some kind of anti-television experiment, a programme which, despite the careful plans and preparations […]

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