Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

Articles

Parish Notices
After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned -- Sebastian Cody
Everything’s gone off the rails except the ideology! -- Anthony Frewin
Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system -- Tim Pendry
Children and the Official Secrets Act -- Corinne Souza
Tittle-tattle -- Tom Easton
The biggest of big lies? -- Robin Ramsay
Mind control -- Robin Ramsay
The Cecil King coup plot -- Roger Cottrell
The View from the Bridge -- Robin Ramsay
Philip Agee, the KGB and us -- Robin Ramsay
All the news that fits -- Tom Easton
Kiss me on the apocalypse! -- Simon Matthews
Feedback
The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal -- John Newsinger
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! -- Robin Ramsay
RE: -- Terry Hanstock
Sources -- Robin Ramsay

Book reviews

Let us now praise famous researchers -- reviewed by Anthony Frewin
The Kurdish and Armenian genocides -- reviewed by John Newsinger
The Labour Party -- reviewed by Bernard Porter
Animal Pharm -- reviewed by Colin Johnson
Israel and the Clash of Civilisations -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Deception -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
A Century of Spin -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53 -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Psi Spies -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Dr Mary’s Monkey -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
Briefly

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20 Nov

Column extras. Oswald and the Angleton mole hunt; the British-American Project again; the myth of Britain's economic ranking; the Cold War's arms race inverted; the passing of Tony Bunyan; more.

Robin Ramsay's "View from the Bridge" has been updated.

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20 Nov

"Hanton shows how US corporations own and effectively control the British economy, and how they siphon off vast profits while paying little or no tax."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017) reviews Angus Hanton's "Vassal State: How American Runs Britain"

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14 Oct

Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/the-view-from-the-bridge-52/

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14 Oct

"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/historical-notes-on-the-use-of-troops-during-the-1984-85-miners-strike/