Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with me that, if those three names were indeed of British persons, then those names should be released to me. Suddenly, however, the FCO relied on a new caveat – Section 23, which covers UK intelligence agencies and personnel and has no ‘public interest test’. As the judgement states: ‘When it was rightly pointed […]

Chemtrails

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[PDF file]: […] chemicals in order to make cirrus clouds1 5 – or chemtrails, as they are referred to in one US government draft 12 Captain Jeffrey L. Peters, ‘ New Techniques for Contrail Forecasting’, August, 1993, AD-A269 686 AWS/TR–93/001, Illinois: Scott Air Force Base, . The reference to persistent contrails, in full, is: ‘In at least […]

View from the Bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. * new* Is the line changing? I am probably over reading this, but there seem to me to be distinct signs of pennies dropping and lines changing at The Times. There was Emma […]

The Blair Supremacy A study in the politics of Labour’s party management by Lewis Minkin

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[PDF file]: […] in the politics of Labour’s party management Lewis Minkin Manchester University Press, 2014, 798 pp. Colin Challen Published seven years ago, Minkin’s book has taken on a new relevance and I have been prompted to review it by two events. The first was the death of its author earlier this year; the second has […]

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

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[PDF file]: The ‘moral equivalence of the Founding Fathers’ T. P. Wilkinson The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America Gerald Horne New York: New York University Press, 2014, h/b Since 1976, the bicentennial of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) that led to the founding of the United […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] the wonderful Mary Ferrell site2 there is a list of some of the books on the Kennedy assassination that were published in 2017. Among them is a new edition of John Newman’s JFK and Vietnam. I have both his Oswald and the CIA and Where Angels Tread Lightly: the Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] football club and its parent company. In February 2019, the receiver moved into the Bloomfield Road offices of Blackpool FC, dismissed the Oyston directors and installed a new management team to run the club. The receiver sold Oyston’s shares in Blackpool to Simon Sadler, then aged 49, a hedge fund manager at Segantii Capital […]

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