Laissez faire as religion

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] terms) irrational and damaging to the individual who engages in it. If you want an example of one of Richard Dawkins’ memes (mental viruses which capture the mind) at its most virulent, you cannot do better than the addiction to unbridled Page 83 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 laissez faire displayed in the face of […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: Meis Mitzvah in Shrewsbury Five months after Olivia Jane Frank, a former Mossad spy,1 died in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Jewish Chronicle revealed her story to readers of the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. They gave her a double deck headline. Trans Mossad spy who helped track down the Munich terrorists […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] opponents of rewards and not have them killed. (Although sometimes they are killed, too. Inter alia the deaths of Trotsky,9 Petra Kelly and Gerd Bastian10 come to mind.) Intent T o return to the issue of intent: whether one examines the historical debates in the International Workingmen’s Association or even those 9 The exact […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] by God. Yet many still don’t see it’. (p. 13). Wow indeed! It is tempting to just dismiss all this as the inconsequential ravings of a disturbed mind, but, as an incredulous Jon Sopel observes, the story of Hillary Clinton being involved with a Washington DC paedophile ring, the so-called ‘Pizzagate’ affair, actually got […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] unfolds. Steele observed the collapse of Soviet Communism firsthand. He describes one particularly telling incident he witnessed in Moscow in 1991 that very much sticks in the mind, both his and mine. He saw a car crashed into a lamp-post with a dead driver at the wheel on his way home one Friday night […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] fact that Roger Windsor was eventually paid a total of £80,000 by the Mirror does not seem to have raised a doubt about his veracity in Greenslade’s mind.) Here we have a recognisable and quite elaborate disinformation operation. But by whom? We don’t know. Most suspect MI5. Stella Rimington was asked about Roger Windsor […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] could have been compromised. “We all know what 9/11 meant to the country, and his treating those records in such a manner will always leave, in my mind, a cloud over whether or not the 9/11 Commission got full production of the records that they requested, and that to me is extremely serious and […]

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