Using the UK FOIA

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] particularly interesting read because I am currently embroiled in a lengthy appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK. As a part of the research for my own previous Lobster article ‘The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the “Gladio” networks’,1 I had succeeded in obtaining some documents from the Foreign and […]

The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s by Kevin Quinlan

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] few pages in the text. In effect they were better at being spies than the amateurs they were facing (and I would include the Soviet state agencies for much of the period in that description) – and, of course, they had the powers of the state, notably the ability to intercept letters. It is […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to the original hard copy versions as is practicable. It remains just words (no pictures); the subject matter hasn’t changed. What has changed are (a) typeface: Times New Roman does not suit the screen; (b) there is only one column of text instead of two or three (with an infinite amount of space there […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] you can take them apart. SOMERSETT: Boy, if that Kennedy gets shot, we have to know where we are at. Because you know that will be a real shake if they do that. MILTEER: They wouldn’t leave any stone unturned there, no way. They will pick somebody up within hours afterwards, if anything like […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] forces from Vietnam.33 The end of the world as we know it John Lanchester was given access to the Guardian’s collection of the Snowden NSA/GCHQ documents in New York and has produced a really excellent account of them and the dangers they imply.3 4 Lanchester made one very striking omission. He wrote this: ‘We […]

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[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]

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