Dangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 in … Read more
[…] implications of such an extension of the police’s role. Kinsey and Baldwin note (p. 257) that “Community policing is all very well when administered by a charismatic liberal but it could easily turn into a fearsome machine for surveillance if placed in the wrong hands.” But they’ve got it wrong. Current policing, including ‘community […]
[…] be a common lexicon and belief system with other flimsy theories that have crossed the Atlantic and taken root in the UK during the same period. Neo- liberal economics, ‘the End of History’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama and the corporate management strategies of Tom Peters promoted a set of values (successfully in the UK […]
[…] barely a murmur. There were some protests about the QinetiQ scandal. Mark Serwotka of the PCS union described the affair as ‘obscene’. It was condemned by various Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs, and even by the odd Labour MP. The government, however, defended it as a ‘good deal’ for the taxpayer. Indeed, Lord Drayson, […]
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less […]
The articles on Blairism and contamination in Lobster 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion … Read more
Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited early […]
[…] PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support to Mara’s […]
[…] of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as an “agent of influence’. Former Liberal MP Michael Winstanley (Lord Winstanley) died in July. A long obituary in the Daily Telegraph of July 19 failed to mention Winstanley’s revelations about his knowledge […]
[…] place, Wallace’s allegations about Clockwork Orange Two go far beyond Ware’s “mainland Labour politicians”. As Ware must know, Wallace claims that MI5 wanted him to smear Labour, Liberal and Tory politicians in Clockwork Orange Two. Ware can get away with this disgraceful distortion only by completely ignoring the Wallace handwritten notes – based on […]
