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 […]

South of the border

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 […]

Who let the dogs out?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] known for advising Democrat candidates so Harding missed an opportunity to balance the picture). And what of those firms – one prominent UK PR company comes to mind – with a history of working for 28 Alpha Dogs p. 219 29 New York Times 9 July 1996 30 Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand (New […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies with […]

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* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]

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