Lobster Issue 36: Contents

Parish Notices

Thanks to Robin Whittaker (in particular), Peter Watson, Solomon Hughes, Phil Chamberlain, Terry Hanstock, Jane Affleck, Sukarai Haruhiko, Peter Watson, David Lee, John Burnes and Harry Irwin for information, material and advice.

Correction

In footnote 1 on page 28 of Lobster 35 I referred to Labour MP Tony Lloyd as a ‘moderniser’. My apologies to Mr Lloyd: I confused him with Tony Wright.

Donations

Thanks to Carol Smith for a donation of £200. The fact that the money was otherwise intended for the Labour Party makes it the sweeter. And to Anthony Holland for a donation of $100 Australian.

Price increase

The price increase from £2.50 to £3.00 is unavoidable: at £2.50 Lobster had ceased to pay for itself, mainly due to rising printing costs. I don’t mind producing it for nothing but I can’t afford to subsidise it: got nothing to subsidise it with. In 1986 Lobster went up to £2.00 a copy. Now at £3.00 a copy that is a 33% price increase in 12 years – less than 3% per annum. Lobster – doing its bit in the ‘battle against inflation’?

This issue

From a long essay on Keynes’ thinking to more strange stuff about mind control. Only in Lobster, right? But the apparent gap between the two subjects is smaller than it might at first seem. Scott Newton’s piece on Keynes hinges on the imposition of US power at the end of WWII; the development of mind control devices is ultimately being done to maintain that power. Indeed, the theme of US power runs through much of this issue. It is central to the essays by Tom Easton, Armen Victorian and Giles Scott-Smith.

For the first time for a long time I had a good deal more material than I could afford to publish: this issue could easily have been 70 pages not 52. My apologies to the various contributors whose essays were lost in the final shuffle.

As usual, the pieces without an author are by me.

Robin Ramsay

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