Lobster Magazine

"Questioning the official version of events - fanatical Muslims hijacking planes and demolishing buildings - has not proved a prudent career move on either side of the Atlantic." John Booth (@JohnBooth2017), in "9/11 Attracts Mainstream Critics" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"The spycops affair should have been one of the biggest scandals in our domestic politics since the end of the Second World War. Instead, it got kicked into the long grass." Robin Ramsay reviews Kate Wilson's "Disclosure: Unraveling the Spycops Files" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

The consequences of Thatcher's infatuation with the theories of Milton Friedman; the tramps of Dealey Plaza; Trump, the Saudis, and the 9/11 network; more. Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" is under construction 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Stanley Bonnett was a former Daily Worker copy boy who had survived five Arctic convoys to the USSR. His nemesis as a spy came in 1985 under an Observer headline: 'CND editor passed information to Special Branch'." Andrew Rosthorn, in "Angles Morts" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"This arrived unbidden, and the title wasn't encouraging. Mr Nordangård takes on trust material that should be ringing alarm bells." Robin Ramsay, on Jacob Nordangård's "The Global Coup d’Etat: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Reset" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

𝗟𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 #𝟵𝟭 Now under construction 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/issue/91/ Additions and updates will be announced via this account.

Starmer as deep statist; the British Gladio redux; new JFK declassifications and debates; the Covid coverup; the US/Ukraine uncoupling; more. Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated. 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"It seems obvious that Bonde was selected by Göring as an interlocutor with the UK Government because of his social, political, and diplomatic connections." Simon Matthews, in "Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace, 1939-1941" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"For the last twenty years of his life, Keynes was dedicated to the construction of a society conducive to good states of mind in all its citizens." Prof Scott Newton, in "Historical Notes: Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Today the UK government continues to sponsor films, videos, YouTube clips, etc, and the state now faces the challenge of social media's power to radicalise and misinform." Simon Matthews reviews Scott Anthony's 'The Story of British Propaganda Film' 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Some chapters consist of first-hand accounts by women who were confined to the 'sleep room'. It's unfathomable that this 'treatment' was allowed to continue for so long" Anthony Frewin, on Jon Stock's 'The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal' 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"It's taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get near to finding out who ordered the killing of David Holden, their chief foreign correspondent." Andrew Rosthorn reviews " Murder in Cairo" by Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"What is most interesting about this memoir is how little it tells us about post-1945 British counterinsurgency tactics and strategy. This can only be deliberate." John Newsinger reviews 'Intelligent Warfare: The memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson' 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"The author is a South African judge. His book may contain some important information. But it's so incompetently done that I abandoned it after reading just a third of its 450 pages." Robin Ramsay, on Chris Nicholson's "Who really killed Chris Hani?" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Stalker was honest and rigorous. He was also a Catholic. It didn't take him long to conclude that there was indeed a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland" Simon Matthews, on Paddy Hillyard's "Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"As an account of the 1980 SAS operation, this is an amalgam of fact and fiction. It strikes me that it reads like a screenplay for television, which is perhaps the author's real intent." Nick Must (@Nick_M_Baja) reviews Ben Macintyre's "The Siege" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity that deceived the Labour Party membership and produced a constitutional coup" Colin Challen reviews "Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer" by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"It's quite hard to get your head around the fact that the author of this conspiracy fantasy memoir is now the director of the FBI" John Newsinger reviews Kash Patel's "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…

"Some of it is hard for a non-specialist reader. But it remains extraordinary to see a senior US military officer write a book subtitled 'The CIA and its Allies in Control of the US and the World'" Robin Ramsay, on Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team" 🦞 lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/…