More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] and proof that Hess was most likely an eccentric acting without wider authorization. In fact, by seeking a direct meeting with the King, Hess was following established Nazi practice, as can be seen by looking at other instances where this approach was used: DENMARK – April 1940. Germany invaded Denmark at 4am on 9 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a piece by Labour MP Jess […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to accelerate the rebuilding of the West with surplus resources from the undamaged USA to demonstrate that the Soviet Union could not deliver (after having single-handedly defeated Nazi Germany) the quality of life that the US would offer.13 The Marshall Plan was also economic promotion for US capital which made money, selling to Western […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] process. After 1933-34 unemployment in the USA and the UK did start to fall and recovery became evident in much of Europe by the mid-1930s. But ( Nazi Germany being an exception) high levels of joblessness continued to exist and activity was erratic. Contemporary economic theory Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1845), Marxist Internet […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] for and it seems churlish not to mention them. I have Richard Griffiths, What did you do during the war? The last throes of the British pro- Nazi Right, 1940-45; Philip M Coupland, Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks; Colin Holmes, Searching for Lord Haw-Haw; and Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Marketing the Third […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.20 This essay shows that it was members of far right and neo- Nazi Ukrainian groups which did the Maidan massacre, leading to the resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kick the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a […]

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