Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] countries as threatened outposts of European civilisation defending their existence against barbarians at the gate.’ Sasha Polakow-Suransky is well placed to throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] been the real target. Why would anyone want to murder a philosopher? The presumption has to be that the assassins believed the nickname ‘Putin’s Brain’ reflects a hidden political reality. As for the claim that Dugin is the World’s Most Dangerous Philosopher, this depends entirely on what one means by ‘World’. If one means […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] in Britain has ever engaged in recent years in a serious debate on the ends or means of policy towards overseas investment’. This she attributed to ‘a hidden bias in the political, economic and indeed social system, towards overseas investment’. 1 5 In the 1950s and 60s the British state clung to the pretensions […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Ezra Klein, ‘Was the Democratic primary rigged?’ or . 8 Anthony J. Gaughan, ‘Was the Democratic Nomination Rigged? A Reexamination of the Clinton-Sanders Presidential Race’ in […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] There are indications – no, actually considerably more than mere indications – that some of the most infamous terrorist attacks of recent years were guided by a hidden hand with a degree of technical know-how beyond that of the bombers themselves. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, wasn’t actually capable of making the bombs […]