[…] the newly formed LibDems in 1987, she stuck with the David Owen rump of Social Democrats that relied heavily on Sainsbury dosh. Both shared early loyalty to New Labour – she writing supportive columns while he signed big cheques – and then came their apparent simultaneous conversion to the charismatic qualities of the banana-waving […]
[…] Telecom can monitor thousands of calls per day overseas calls are sent to GCHQ which runs them through a ‘voice print’ library to identify the speaker. ( New Scientist 28 February 1985) Interesting background support to this in Andreas Whittam Smith in Telegraph (16 February 1985) who quotes on history of British tapping. Claims […]
9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99 This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is […]
[…] of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from the mid-1970s the spook-wise British left — the line […]
[…] for the US neo-cons being legendary – is: a) supporting France and Germany’s bid to build an EU defence force outside of NATO; and b) has appointed new cardinals, who, mirroring the Anglicans, are likely to reinforce Roman Catholicism as the global friend of all faiths. Meantime, long-established non-spiritual Christian groups/charities are moving in […]
[…] thing, the budgets, the armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from a New York Times ‘liberal’ perspective, he remains – in contrast to Chomsky, Cockburn and Hitchens – very much the critical insider. In keeping with this stance, however, […]
[…] former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric Joyce MP, the former Army officer wheeled out to defend New Labours military interventions when no minister is available, serves on the MPs executive committee of LFI. Mea culpas from some…. Chairing LFI these days is Jon […]
[…] I was now forbidden to publish his letter. By agreeing to publish his letter uncut I am censoring him? Pilger’s column on the British-American Project in the New Statesman of 16 October was lifted, unattributed of course, from Lobster 33. Why is it that journalists have to pretend that everything starts with them? Milner’s […]
[…] alarmed at the dramatic upsurge of industrial unrest and political militancy that followed war’s end. Militant trade unionists, radical socialists, and communists were now seen as the new enemy, attempting to instigate a Bolshevik-style revolution in Britain and its Empire.(22) To combat the Bolshevik danger the Security Service collaborated with those right-wing groups actively […]
[…] was to gain support from both the remnants of the Die-hard tradition, who were dismayed by the collapse of the British empire, and ex-fascists who resented Mosley’s new European idea. In spite of the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was […]
