Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] military establishment – is actually an obstacle to success, is holding the country back, indeed putting it in danger. Men like this are what we need. Re mind you of anyone? And does all this presage an attempt to revive the SAS as the right-wing cultural phenomenon it became during the Thatcher years? In […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] about this, remembering the dominance of Oxbridge-educated elites in British politics during the 1960s and 1970s when I was a young man. Recently, however, I changed my mind. The key moment for me was an MA dissertation by a student of mine, on the impact of the 1979 Brandt Report (North-South: a programme for […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] the chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006: ‘If you believe that history has come to an end, you explicitly banish memory from your mind. Greenspan was “shocked”. Like a small child who had ventured into a world beyond his experience or imagination, he did “not fully understand why it had […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] 28 8 Steele Dossier!29 Confirmation that our man was (at least willing to act as) a representative of MI6 comes from the transcript of the symposium ‘The Mind of the Hacker Insights from GCHQ, MI6 and Israeli Intelligence’.30 This shows the audience were told they would ‘be joined on stage by Arthur Snell from […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] his report that the police must stop using the word victim and start using the word complainant because the police must approach these cases with an open mind. It is their duty to investigate whether or not it leads towards the suspect or indeed away from the suspect.’ 16 The abandoned guidelines referred to […]