The Collapse of Globalism

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[…] the chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006: ‘If you believe that history has come to an end, you explicitly banish memory from your mind. Greenspan was “shocked”. Like a small child who had ventured into a world beyond his experience or imagination, he did “not fully understand why it had […]

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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] October 2018. Michael Sinclair is Executive Director of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Programme, and was previously Vice President of the Henry J Kaiser Foundation. 19 come to mind, for none of which hindsight is a requirement. Leading the way is the lack of action to establish a written constitution for the UK. A demand […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Interpretation’, Sociological Review, volume 3 (1910). 6 4 stock market and to changes in State pension levels. This can all make for considerable anxiety, a state of mind likely to be intensified by rapid shifts in the political, economic and social environment. What had been seen as the stable and unchanging values of the […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to control, not just the future but also adjacent scholarly disciplines. As Theodor W Adorno wrote of philosophical systembuilders, this is a symptom of the ‘belly turned mind’. My riposte on Turchin’s behalf is that internal divisions amongst the US elites – described in depth in End Times and now playing out within the […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] government or war was for all intents and purposes its essence. What was not seen on television – never happened. It is necessary to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] where such an application has been refused. (See or ). 7 It’s not all a waste of time Bearing the above cynicism about the National Archives in mind, I should perhaps point out that there is an event at the NA that might be very interesting. Wednesday 1 May is the date for the […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Spies for Hire (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008) p. 116 Cloud services market study (final report) – Ofcom or . 5 3 Bearing all this in mind, I think I will choose not to become an unpaid tendril of the intelligence gatherers. It has been asked online whether it is indeed possible to […]

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