Last of the old-style Lobster

It's got no pictures, lots and lots of footnotes, very little page design and has essays entitled 'Reflections on the 'cult of the offensive': pre-emptve war, the Israel lobby and US military doctrine', 'Politics and paranoia' and 'The meaning of the 2009 budget'.
Yes, the summer edition of Lobster, the journal of parapolitics, has just dropped on the doormat. But number 57 will be the last print edition.
Editor Robin Ramsay says in this issue: "Producing Lobster has dominated my life for a long time now and I am just tired of doing it. A couple or three years ago I thought that there was still a big difference between hard copy and the Internet, that the Internet wasn't serious, with no ultimate legal requirement to get things accurate. But in practice, as the documentation in the magazine shows, we get almost all our information from the Net these days and the distinction between the two media no longer seems important. We know what are and not serious websites. Essentially Lobster has been overtaken by technology."
The next issue will appear but it will be online and in a format to be determined. It will also be free.
Ramsay and previously fellow parapolitical enthusiast Stephen Dorril, published a huge amount of fascinating material, particularly on the Wilson coup plots, Colin Wallace and Clockwork Orange. It also ran pieces on the British American Project long before the mainstream media bothered looking at it.
With a print run of around 1,000 but readers in all sorts of interesting places it occupies a very useful niche.
There are some background pieces on Robin and the magazine here and in the Fortean Times.
Meanwhile I've got my first byline in the last print edition for a minor book review. I'll be contributing a longer piece for the next on 'whatever happened to the Economic League's blacklisting operation'.
It would have been a bit of a pain to have finally got a piece in a magazine I've been reading for 15+ years only for it to fold. Long may it continue digging. Just don't call it New Lobster.