[…] is available in abundance and I see little point in simple collation. Plus the spooks don’t seem as important as they did. If someone offered me a new list of the British secret state, an update of the one I published in 1989, I’m not sure I would devote an entire issue of Lobster […]
[…] and partly the whole Cambridge “moles’ saga from the point of view of those who were recruiting and running them. The result is a heavy shower of new bits of information. So, for example, if you ever wondered how much the Soviet Union was paying Guy Burgess to spy in the 1930s, or how […]
[…] Times journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, for 17 years The Times’ Home Affairs correspondent when it still was the voice of the ‘British establishment’. Evans k new MI5 people and got material from them. He also got material from IRD (unidentified by Evans) but these IRD briefings were ‘too right-wing’ to be used. […]
[…] primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited and cannot be taken as anything like a real record of the event, and (b) that the autopsy X-rays were faked. Both claims have been made before but the essays in this book seem to […]
Richard Norton-Taylor, Mark Lloyd and Stephen Cook Gollancz, London, 1996 £9.99 This arrived just too late for the previous Lobster and even though it feels now almost like a museum piece, what with the enormous balloon of guff in which we have been enveloped since the election, this is too important a subject to […]
[…] the University of Kent (Funnell) and two of his colleagues – work their way through the experience of privatisation in the UK, Australia, the USA, China and New Zealand. Very carefully the authors show us what we knew already: privatisation failed in its stated aims of cheaper, better services; but succeeded triumphantly in its […]
[…] agents were used by their intelligence handlers to bring about the deaths of certain members of the IRA’ (p. 193) ‘After twenty years, parts of the military machine were out of control’. (p. 192); Sound familiar? There is also what seems to me to be substantial new material pertaining to the Stalker and Stevens inquiries.
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[…] the World Federation of Trade Unions split, it was bound to split and the blame lies at the Soviet door. It is an attractive thesis, a nice, new revisionist synthesis — and it might even be true. It’s just that MacShane hasn’t really adequately described the theses he is attacking: we get a line […]
[…] and Jim Keith much more seriously than I do. It’s just a different take on the whole parapolitical thing. But why not? This is 350 almost A4-sized pages. I would be surprised if you didn’t find at least half a dozen pieces of serious interest. Notes AK’s address is given in the Sources section below.
