Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] assembled on his premiership records a fall from grace summed up by its title. ‘The demure public image was the front of a woman with a steely mind who was fiercely protective of her husband and family. She formed a strong, and to some at No 10 surprising, alliance with Damian McBride and Charlie […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] recording artist, best known for his catchphrase ‘Bless your pea-pickin’ heart!’, it’s hard to imagine why Hoover thought his good name might be mentioned at all, never mind besmirched. 9 The Collapse of Camelot Fifteen days after Hoover’s memo, President Kennedy was murdered and Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President. Robert Kennedy lingered […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: The economic crisis continues Robin Ramsay The bottom line (of the bottom line) At the end of December 2010 Her Majesty’s Treasury put out a document which stated: ‘…net debt excluding the temporary effects of financial interventions was £889.1 billion, equivalent to 59.3 per cent of gross domestic product (£2322.7 billion, equivalent to 154.9% including […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? * new * It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in the US, Kajsa Norman: 16 or <http://uk.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embedmicrochips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5?r=US&IR=T 17 See, for example, from 2007 Todd Lewan’s […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Besly. 2 BISS was a microwave-based intruder-detection system. This was discussed in the Guardian in 1986, that article being reproduced at . See also Armen Victorian, The Mind Controllers (London: Vision, 2000) pp. 201-203. bleed, pressure in the forehead, temples and ears; earache; pain in the glands in the parotid region; swelling of tongue […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] his semen-smeared reputation? I won’t go over the whole issue again. I’m getting bored too, which is a shame, as I’m broadly on his side. To my mind the basic question is quite simple. Assange was perfectly willing to face trial either if he were questioned in the UK, which is a normal practice; […]

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