Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The further adventures of Boris Johnson By the time you read this, the thrilling event that was ‘Boris on Brexit, Live’ 1 will have taken place. This Daily Telegraph event was due to happen on 26 March 2019. It is officially described thus: ‘Three days before […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] the European Union.8 The author describes the many efforts to deal with this problem in the frenzied Commons atmosphere after the 2017 General Election. Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May was seeking a solution to maintain her occupation of No 10 Downing Street and, like Corbyn, the leadership of or 3 or 4 or or 5 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: Mad men? Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Nicholas O’Shaughnessy Routledge, 2017, £29.99 (p/b) Colin Challen The title of this book is both arresting, yet banal. And very chilling. To deal with the last point first: the twenty first century’s highly developed concept and practice of marketing is that you identify your market, […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the Cabinet Office, this is implausible.) Quite what Cameron thought the ‘whole supply chain finance issue’ was is unclear. Nick Timothy, chief of staff to prime minister Theresa May, commented: ‘Mr Greensill promised to sort out the problem of the public sector making late payments to suppliers using “reverse factoring”. Even aside from the special […]