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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] times, that there may be a subtext we are not aware of. There are two obvious possibities here: Fraser threatened to reveal other paedophiles; Fraser was a spook. 10 11 12 5 investigation not to the Goddard Inquiry, which has the power to compel testimony from witnesses, but to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was Peter Ricketts, later knighted, and chair of the Joint Inteligence Committee 2000-01 and the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010-12. After a long career in the spook world, his final diplomatic posting was the most agreeable position as Ambassador to Paris (see ). He is now Visiting Professor at the Department of War […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] do not. This treaty wasn’t signed by mistake: the Home Office was warned about it six years ago by a committee of MPs who 6 In ‘CIA spook says Megrahi was freed before appeal humiliated justice system’, 7 For further reading, try Paul Foot’s 1994 essay, ‘Taking the blame’, in the London Review of […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a crusty old spook confirmed the accuracy of these allegations that Lobster’s claims were taken seriously. This investigative breakthrough led to a short-term career working on Channel 4 news items […]

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