Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn’t long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney’s business career was not as long as Bush’s, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney’s role as Halliburton’s … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Text without an author is by the editor Parish Notices Thanks to Robin Whittaker, Mal Function, Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock and Peter Hancock for information since the last issue. There isn’t much to be said here except to apologise for the technical disaster which was the previous issue. Computers are wonderful tools when they … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Parish Notices Thanks to: Rom, Jane Affleck, Jeff Bale, Mal Function, Robin Whittaker, Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information. Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Parish Notices Thanks to Martin Collins, Grattan Healy, Robin Whittaker (in particular), Rom, Terry Hanstock, Jane Affleck, Dr Sean Gabb, anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Vincent Bugliosi New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007 xlvi + 1612 pps. + CD-ROM End Notes and Source Notes (958 + 170 pps.). Illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95. ‘Reclaiming History is important not just because it’s correct, though it is. It’s significant not just … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
British ‘USP’ In September 2000 the tragic case of two infants from Malta dominated the headlines.(1) British judges were asked to decide whether it was ‘right’ for doctors to sacrifice one child, joined at the abdomen with her twin, for the sake of the other. As a result of global press coverage, the moral arguments … Read more
