‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] be an increasing reliance on paying for health care. Considering this wide-ranging and consistent approach to ordering life in the UK, the only comparison that comes to mind is with 18th century style mercantilism. Are we returning to this? A society in which wealth is based on trade, commerce and property ownership rather than […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] is Jacob Chansley) was wearing a costume that cost hundreds of dollars, paid for by his job as an accountant’. This, as Kolin points out, ‘brings to mind the social composition of fascist movements’. As for Trump, he is ‘a populist Wizard of Oz, presenting himself as a champion of the masses. But when […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] things would work, then he would try them and see. Failure would be down to the patient; success was his alone. What was his theory of the mind? (Though theory might dignify and elevate his thinking, such as it was.) It was quite simple and, shorn of psychiatric and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] a delicate time to move on the British people from the ‘war on terror’ mindset previous leaders and their media backers had encouraged, a belligerent state of mind challenged in 2003 by Corbyn’s friend Robin Cook when he opposed the invasion of Iraq.52 Time will tell whether such hopes for a different, more equal, […]

Deaths in Parliament: a legend re-examined

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Alder 
 The terrorist attack staged by Khalid Masood on 22 March 2017, in which he attempted to enter Parliament, raised some questions. Most interesting, to my mind, was the matter of how he managed to arrive with such precision at the moment when the Carriage Gate to the South of the parliamentary estate […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] in question. Reading it will probably give you a much better understanding of what I am trying to explain! https:// www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-uk-foia.pdf . . . With that in mind, I can see from page 166 of Annie’s book that the redaction, censoring the direct attempt to name Tunworth, is about 15 letters long. This prompts […]

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