[…] by incurring severe operational penalties. Britain’s ability to perform a meaningful role in NATO and in its wider commitments would be undermined. DEFE 5/188/12 suggested that the new climate called for new contingency planning. Above all the maintenance of public services affected by strikes should now embrace the use of ‘civilian volunteers’, particularly skilled […]
[…] by the Libertarian Alliance, and reading their account of it, I printed the bit in Lobster 37 p.49, and brought the story to the attention of the New Statesman/Observer columnist Nick Cohen. Eventually I got an e-mail from Henderson telling me that Cohen had contacted him and was going to write up the story […]
Steamshovel 11 The arrival of a new Steamshovel is an event. No matter that I am going to want to be picky about something in it, every issue contains items both substantial and intriguing – and much that would find a home nowhere else, that I can think of. (Except maybe Lobster. I wish […]
[…] The Focus was founded by Walter Citrine, the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress. In 1933 the World Jewish Economic Federation, under the direction of a New York attorney called Samuel Untermyer, had organised a trade boycott of Germany. The following year Untermyer and the Mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, established […]
[…] on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite saying of mine is: ‘If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody’.…… The particular evil […]
[…] out a story claiming that the IRA had hired American Vietnam vets to do its killing for them. (‘Paddy’ couldn’t really shoot straight was the subtext.) A new variation on this appeared – where else? – but in The Sunday Telegraph on 10 March 2002. After a sniper killed ten Israeli civilians and soldiers […]
[…] feel-good linkages (‘America defeated Communism’); but were denied the opportunity to form modern linkages (‘liberated’ Eastern Europeans v unliberated Iraqis/Palestinians). As a result, one of Europe’s ‘ new’ stories, the growth of anti-Americanism, and, more importantly, understanding of where it came from, was withheld. (A mirror image of the information vacuum US governments imposed […]
[…] US experience suggests that polygraph tests wrongly clear 1 in 4 guilty suspects. (Guardian 19th October 1983) On polygraph’s failings: Douglas Carroll (Guardian 26th May 1983) and New Scientist (15th December 1983) Summary of the story so far: Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian 16th November) and Hennessy (Times 16 November 1983) UK Government buys six polygraphs […]
[…] name ‘surfaced’ in 1984, though they fail to inform the reader that this was actually when Holroyd first spoke to the media, via Duncan Campbell in the New Statesman. (22) Ambush says Nairac ‘boasted’ of killing Green, and predictably describes Ken Livingston’s claims about Nairac in his maiden speech to Parliament as ‘unsubstantiated’. But […]
Extract from Hugh Thomas’ response to Timewatch, 17/1/90. ‘The main thrust of Timewatch’s programme that I was unaware of new evidence from Munich Archives which was the hospital record of the real Rudolf Hess. The evidence had been in Timewatch’s possession for a long time, as the first interview with Dr Lappenkrupper — the […]
