Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] and to consider the ‘credibility’ issue as personal, rather than related to matters of state. Kissinger played Nixon’s confusion to his own political advantage. Believing, like his boss, in ‘threat diplomacy’, Kissinger encouraged the president to adopt increasingly drastic measures: ‘Be prepared to take tough escalatory steps ….(mining Haiphong, bombing Cambodia, etc.)…. to fail […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: How the country is run In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister 1 Alan Duncan London: William Collins, 2021, £25, h/b John Newsinger In the Introduction to his Diaries that cover the period from 2016 until 2020, Alan Duncan makes clear that he is well aware that for many of his […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Trump White House’. She calls him ‘a phoney’, someone who would tell ‘people what they want to hear and would kiss the ass of whoever is the boss’. She goes on that if he had been a character in a film then ‘you would hear thunderclaps in the sky and menacing organ music whenever […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)