Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] by God. Yet many still don’t see it’. (p. 13). Wow indeed! It is tempting to just dismiss all this as the inconsequential ravings of a disturbed mind, but, as an incredulous Jon Sopel observes, the story of Hillary Clinton being involved with a Washington DC paedophile ring, the so-called ‘Pizzagate’ affair, actually got […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] force, whilst remaining outside the single market, implies importing a substantial workforce from countries further afield than Europe. Perhaps this is what she and Starmer have in mind. 13 Part of which is the continued belief that the UK has one of the richest economies in the world. Frequently described as being the ‘5th […]

Ian Cameron (obituary)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of a separate (1997) Angry Brigade volume by Tom Vague. This is the most remarkable of the book’s new items. At moments this brought Ali G to mind. Barker writes with obvious 1 2 This originally appeared in newsletter of the Kate Sharpley Library. 3 1 and very welcome sincerity that the Angry Brigade, […]

Laissez faire as religion

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] terms) irrational and damaging to the individual who engages in it. If you want an example of one of Richard Dawkins’ memes (mental viruses which capture the mind) at its most virulent, you cannot do better than the addiction to unbridled Page 83 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 laissez faire displayed in the face of […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] opponents of rewards and not have them killed. (Although sometimes they are killed, too. Inter alia the deaths of Trotsky,9 Petra Kelly and Gerd Bastian10 come to mind.) Intent T o return to the issue of intent: whether one examines the historical debates in the International Workingmen’s Association or even those 9 The exact […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] wrote while in prison. Ruby implies that reading the book would explain JFK’s assassination. Extracts are quoted on p. 604 of Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ The Master mind of JFK’s Assassination (Xlibris, 2010). This was reviewed in Lobster 61 at or 4 or 5 Had Monbiot gone a step further he could have mentioned […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] just giving away part of the power of the state which NuLab were supposed to be trying to articulate in the interests of the British people (never mind the less well off/ disadvantage/deprived/poor/working class – pick a term). Such privatisation speaks of extremely low self-esteem: for we – the state and politicians – are […]

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