[…] London 1989 p. 429) ‘Ministerial approval’? Why is Carver keen to tell us this? The second was ‘West’s’, and the third is in Michael Asher’s Shoot to Kill: A Soldier’s Journey Through Violence (Viking, London 1990). Asher served in Northern Ireland in the Parachute Regiment and on p. 143 describes MRF: ‘…. ordinary soldiers […]
Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 edited by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1996 £29.50 As the title suggests this really contains two separate though not unrelated areas. The first is a series of shortish essays about so-called think tanks in the UK which follow on from … Read more
Thanks again to Terry Hanstock and David Turner for contributions. Although all URLs are checked shortly before publication, occasionally websites unaccountably disappear. Contributions, comments and info welcome – my email address is Secrecy, censorship FOI and released records Freedom of Information Draft Bill http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/foi/dfoibill.htm Link to the draft FOI Bill (May 1999) and FOI … Read more
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
[…] is about the worth of the state as planner since it is quite clear now that all large organisations have a tendency to sclerosis and entropy. They kill the human spirit by their very nature. To me, the Left ends up as an ethic of opposition to any attempts to assert essentialism over the […]
I invited David Turner to begin writing a regular column for Lobster. He agreed then rang to tell me his computer had been attacked by a virus and could not meet my deadline. (He is the second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written … Read more
This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been … Read more
[…] and that I was the link for the International Communists – the Cuban Communists, the Mexican Communists, and the American Communists, and that we were going to kill Kennedy, and I was the link. For them I was very important. Of course, it was not true.(75) At the time the Mexican CIA Station transmitted […]
The Israel Lobby John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt London: Allen Lane, 2007, £25 This account of the relationship between the ‘Israel lobby’ in the US, the US state and Israel should be required reading for anyone with an interest – personal, professional or political – in the troubled affairs of the Middle East. … Read more
[…] most sensitive behavioural activities and programmes, seven sub-projects, mostly dealing with most deadly means of developing chemical and biological substances which would disorient, discredit, injure and even kill the targets. Many unwitting subjects fell victim to these programmes. Using various National Institute of Mental Health hospitals and facilities, Dr. Harris Isabel ran an Addiction […]
