The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: This is the final chapter of my The Rise of New Labour, published in 2002. It didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some of the introduction, this is a talk I gave to the conference on SCADS, state crimes against democracy, in London in October 2011. The rise of New Labour Robin Ramsay I was asked to talk about the rise of New Labour, presumably because in some way it illustrates the notion of a SCAD, […]

Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] and the ‘problem’ of agents of influence. (In the 1980s the ‘agents of influence’ must be presumed to be CND.) One of the interesting snippets in the new Bower biography of Dick White (reviewed below) is the claim that such activity used to be in MI5’s brief. This is on page 145: ‘On the […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood ( New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) […]

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The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] most interest on reading the book version. In one section pp.48-49 (which also appeared in the Sunday Times on 4 February) Tomlinson describes how his intake of new SIS recruits were briefed by the then SIS chief McColl. One of the new recruits put the obvious question: ‘ “Sir, why do we have an […]

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The Strange Case of Patrick Daly, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] it! Peter Jordan Peter Jordan first achieved local fame when he spread tin-tacks on the pitch of the Bristol rugby ground at half-time on the afternoon of New Year’s eve 1969. The West of England regional team were playing the touring South Africans and this was the culmination of a campaign against the tour […]

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A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. militia ‘right’ certainly would recognize the whole process of Tony Blair abandoning British self-interest to dimly […]

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Telecommunications at the End of the World

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] to a fiasco after Local Government reorganisation. British Telecom requires that relevant numbers be nominated annually; otherwise the lines are put back onto Category 3. Unfortunately the new local authorities were considered to be separate bodies from the old, so Telecom felt unable to disclose which lines were already on TPS (and why). Emergency […]

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The New Pearl Harbour

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 David Ray Griffin Northampton, Mass.: Olive Tree Press/Interlink 2004, $15.00, p/back available at   Putting this out in America took some courage. Most of the content of this book is so far off the mainstream radar as to be invisible. A professor […]

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