Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bug the U.S. phone billing system and steal items from the Florida home of Douglas Leese, a millionaire business rival of the Littlewoods stores family. Douglas Leese’s New York lawyer David Jaroslavicz claimed in the 140 dollar million Miami action that More and the other defendants ‘….stole and converted highly confidential information from used […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] using pseudonyms: another practice that would have been regarded as cowardly in more innocent days. Secrecy is respectable. Snowden’s revelations must have far less impact in this new cultural environment. After all, as William Hague put it recently: ‘If you are a law-abiding citizen of this country going about your business and your personal […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would completely collapse the The presence of 8 DUP MPs increased the number required to bring down Johnson from about 40 to 45. Tim Bale in The New European 5 November 2020 notes that a Northern Research Group of 55 Conservative MPs has been formed and that the Tories may now be splintering. 3 […]

Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] along with President Reagan, successfully pushed the advanced industrial states to take the free market rather than the Keynesian approach to global development advocated by Brandt. The new line, the foundation of what later became known as the Washington Consensus, was announced at the 1981 Cancun summit. Reading this and noting the very considerable […]

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