Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] behaviour – if that is possible. So far at least, Trump does not seem to have identified Pence as a possible threat. He might well change his mind if someone tells him about this book (he’s hardly going to read it himself). If he does come to see Pence as a potential rival, then […]

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 […]

The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] (or Hull, where I live); then ask yourself if those changes are compatible with membership of (a) the World Trade Organisation and (b) the European Union. (Never mind whether or not they would be compatible with lower carbone missions etc.) Page 57 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 So financial services are only 7.1% of GDP. […]

Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the NSA mass surveillance program operates in a similar fashion, presenting US citizens with an ‘implicit bargain’: ‘……pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] ‘affordable’ colour-changing fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Rise of China and World Order: An Interview with F. William Engdahl’, International Critical Thought, May 2014, p. 134 26 F. William Engdahl, ‘Washington Underestimated the Iranian Mind’, New Eastern Outlook, 10 February 2016, . 27 ‘Kissinger was invited to that meeting, by the way.’ 28 Despite the curious inconsistencies in Engdahl’s wording, many […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] in the last three years caused by the low payments made in ‘green pounds’ (i.e. Euros) via UK membership of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. But never mind, eh? Trust your Uncle Tony: he may not know how to use a PC but he knows we have ‘the knowledge economy’ coming over the horizon […]

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