Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] up with anti-Semitic, pro-Trump vitriol Some charming Twitter troll posted a picture of me being executed in a gas chamber by a smiling Trump dressed in a Nazi uniform’ (pp. 83-84). Boot looks back on his political trajectory, on his success at building a career as a right-wing ‘journalist, historian, and foreign policy pundit’ […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] nothing. Initially they lacked a political angle. This arrived when the Socialist Workers Party (always on the look-out for campaigns they could take over) launched the Anti- Nazi League in 1977, scooping up RAR in the process. Peter Hain became a prominent supporter at this point,6 and Peter Jenner too, another very obvious overhang […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] . Orwell describes how the so-called anti-fascists (as in today’s Antifa) eventually prove themselves to be the real fascists’. (p. 219) He seriously compares Antifa to the Nazi Brown Shirts and to the Ku Klux Klan – and, in doing so, manages to ignore the fact that both the contemporary US neo-Nazis and the […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] Stephen Harper, our Prime Minister, was used by CSIS as an operative against me previously in 1988, at a time when CSIS thought I was a neo- Nazi and a South African agent. After learning that I knew about Harper (it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise), CSIS deemed me a security risk […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] acknowledgement. He ‘read’ Hitler correctly from very early on; his defiance between May and September 1940 saved the UK and western democracy; and his opposition to the Nazi regime was not just due to a fear that it would supercede the British Empire: it was based on moral considerations as well. To this I […]