Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Party? I decided to reread his tremendous Blind Eye to Murder, published back in 1981, and actually bought a second hand copy. It only served to re mind me of what he had once been before his sad decline, as evidenced by the appalling Corbyn volume. And this was before his 500+ page perverted […]

War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] just giving away part of the power of the state which NuLab were supposed to be trying to articulate in the interests of the British people (never mind the less well off/ disadvantage/deprived/poor/working class – pick a term). Such privatisation speaks of extremely low self-esteem: for we – the state and politicians – are […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] compelled to adopt consent rules for the storage of data from European users on US servers – is never seen as a risk to ‘Internet freedom’. Never mind that virtually all Internet software, and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] of binary weapons. It would appear that in addition to ‘owning the weather’, covert, global, binary warfare began a long time ago with chemtrail spraying. Keeping in mind that many anti-chemtrail activists have taken water samples after heavy spraying and claim to have found high concentrations of polymer,3 8 Davison wrote that in 1999, […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] – where it was considered Russia would exercise a veto and prevent action by the international community – they were not unreasonable considerations to be born in mind before engaging in military action. They were only of value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] processes have been followed correctly. (This happened in the recent notorious case of Thomas Quick – a convicted serial killer who turned out not to be. Never mind; if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] credentials. (p. 127) Trump, of course, did not attend the classes. There is much more of interest in Keddie’s book. Some minor points inevitably stick in the mind. For example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt […]

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