Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] suggested this interpretation to him. If there’s any truth to it, however, it becomes worrying in a political sense. With the Guardian moving ever closer to the New Labour establishment, what else wouldn’t they investigate if they came across it? Is the smell of incense currently wafting from the Guardian offices covering a more […]

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Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’

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[…] though the core of Secret Agenda, is a small percentage of a text which is overflowing with fascinating bits and pieces. And perhaps its the superfluity of new information which has obscured one or two simple points which effectively wreck this central thesis. In the first place Hougan has no evidence, not a shred, […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Colin Wallace was putting together in Northern Ireland, on behalf of Information Policy, as part of Clockwork Orange. There is the same blend of known facts, intriguing new information, and the subtle insertion of ‘black’ material. All of which is held together, or given a ‘spin’, by the addition of a ‘theme’. The theme, […]

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The view from the bridge. JFK. Waco. Oklahoma. Timor. Moral Rearmament Movement

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. What leapt out at me was a section on pp.306-8 which contrasts the […]

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth listening to. Zero […]

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George Orwell and the IRD

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] movement more effective. He rejected the Labour Party as hopelessly compromised and the Communist Party as in thrall to Moscow, calling instead for the emergence of a new Socialist Party. The last paragraph of The Road is a powerful statement of his position: ‘In the next few years we shall either get that effective […]

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The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] an alleged ‘…pursuing paparazzi motorist who blocked the exit road before the Alma Tunnel.'(8) This was witnessed by Thierry H, although it is unclear how he k new that the car blocking the road was occupied by paparazzi. Electronic sabotage According to one theory the Mercedes, having being ‘lured’ into the Alma Tunnel, was […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] most noteworthy thing about it: Myrna speaks of being taken by soldiers, not aliens, after she had seen vaguely-described unusual activity taking place near Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. Davidson confirmed for me that, at the time, everyone talking to Myrna merely presumed that UFOs were involved. This is typical of the conclusion-hopping one […]

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Plundering the Public Sector

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

David Craig and Richard Brooks London: Constable, 2006, £9.99, p/b   When the Blair faction took office in 1997 as ‘ New Labour’ we knew that they were going to be pro-American, pro-NATO, pro-business, anti-union and media conscious. What we did not know then was just how completely they had internalised the Thatcher ethos, […]

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