Ian Cameron (obituary)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was the 1973 Scotland Yard/Special Branch secret solicitors blacklist. And finally when Essex Police mounted Operation Century (1996), using undercover Special Branch to role-play as life threatening IRA terrorists, there was no police accountability. Those on the receiving end of this spot of Special Branch adventurism complained but Essex Police got the Police Complaints […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of MI5 is keen to steal some thunder from MI6, it is somewhat depressing to see that the same attitudes that often hampered the conflict with the IRA in Northern Ireland are still alive and kicking in the ubiquitous ‘war on terror’.3 *new* Dominic Cummings’ particular brand of bullshit On 17 March, Dominic Cummings […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Third comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.’45 This is reminiscent of Colin Wallace saying that the IRA was fourth on the British Army’s enemies list in Northern Ireland; and the sentiment is probably familiar to anyone who has been a member of a […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] a third rate power, but the City of London has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) in the UDA and Freddie Scappaticci (aka ‘Stakeknife’) in the IRA. 18 19 Details of this posting are given at .

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a low-level operative. As an Irishman with a criminal record, Bannigan had his uses, and was deniable. He began carrying a gun, provided a report on alleged IRA gun-running activities, turned up in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination records, ‘serials’, chronology and the information from the latest […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]

The Centre Must Hold: Why centrism is the answer to extremism and polarisation edited by Yair Zivan

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[PDF file]: […] such as Clinton, Blair, Macron and Biden. But honours can occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, […]

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