Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Parish Notices Errors in Issue 53 In the review The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism, Richard Cummings appeared as John Cummings. On the front cover and on pp. 2 and 31 Corinne Souza was given as Corinne de Souza. Considering that both have written for this … Read more
Parish Notices Thanks to: Rom, Jane Affleck, Jeff Bale, Mal Function, Robin Whittaker, Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information. Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more … Read more
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
Parish Notices Thanks to Al Baron, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Jane Affleck, Robin Whittaker (in particular), Tom Easton and Dr. David Turner for information since the last Lobster. An apology to David Guyatt not publishing his long and interesting reply to the criticism in ‘Feedback’ of his article on alleged US use of chemical weapons … Read more
Text without an author is by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to Robin Whittaker, Mal Function, Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock and Peter Hancock for information since the last issue. There isn’t much to be said here except to apologise for the technical disaster which was the previous issue. Computers are wonderful tools when they … Read more
Just ten years ago the issues were so simple, the arguments so clean. The concept of hackers was cute and quaint, best understood through Hollywood thrillers like ‘War Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange … Read more
The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state is … Read more
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, … Read more
From Tony Hollick A Response to David Guyatt’s Operation Black Dog, in Lobster 35. All aircraft and ordnance information is from Modern Warplanes, by Doug Richardson, Salamander Books, 1982. It would have been Saddam Hussein’s most heartfelt wish, to have the US attack Iraq with nerve gas during the 1991 Gulf War. He could then … Read more
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
