The Lobster CD-Rom has been discontinued. With the advent and prevalence of the Internet, accessing back issues online is easier than ever, and always up to date. Archived information That the CD exists is entirely down to Ian Tresman. When he rang me some while ago and suggested transferring Lobster to a CD my reaction … Read more
It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor'(1) which advertises the … Read more
Colin Challen Vision Paperbacks, London, 1998, £7.99 It says something about this society of ours – and about the academics who make a living teaching what they call ‘politics’ – that this is the first book about the funding of the political party which has been in power for most of this century; and it … Read more
A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard In response to my snippet in issue 38 (p.22) on Moral Rearmament and the CIA, Daniel Brandt (1) sent me the following from Miles Copeland’s, The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative (London: Aurum Press, 1989, pp. 176-177). This is a nice demonstration … Read more
Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to Bill Clark, Bob Ardler and Chris West for money or offers of money. Happily, thanks to the sales of the CD-Rom, Lobster is self-financing. There are many other little magazines (and, indeed, Web sites) which are not in this fortunate position and … Read more
Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Writers in this issue Jane Affleck is a regular contributor to Lobster. Garrick Alder is a journalist. Richard Alexander is a long-time Lobster reader and contributor. His website is <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blackchip/> Roger Cottrell is a novelist, script writer and PhD student. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. … Read more
I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. ‘Does Brown understand economics?’ I asked him. ‘Well, he reads lots of big books,’ said Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic … Read more
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain … Read more
