Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99 I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] informed by a retired senior Ministry of Defence civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] that in Britain’s shaky post-war situation economic information should be given a high priority. It was indeed satisfying when a single report could pay for the annual Secret Vote several times over. This was the pattern which, in his later appointments, Young attempted to set for the whole service. One report, however, did not […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] view, the illusion was sustained by the politicians, and not by the Civil Service – what he calls ‘the permanent government’ – and certainly not by the secret Civil Service, SIS (MI6). For Verrier’s second thesis, the one I guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] David Kelly C.M.G…. (London: HMSO, 2004) See for example: Raymond Whitaker, ‘Evidence reveals Blair’s true intention for war’, Independent on Sunday, 1 May 2005; David Hughes, ‘Premier’s secret council of war’, Daily Mail, 2 May 2005; Richard Norton-Taylor and Patrick Wintour, ‘Papers reveal commitment to war: Iraq secret documents indicate Blair support for military […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] your privacy on the internet: http://www.nucleus.com/~dreamwvr/locknkey.htm Threat to Online Privacy: ACPO/ISP Negotiations http://www.cyber-rights.org/press/ Cyber-rights and Cyber-liberties, CACIB, and Internet Freedom (www.netfreedom.org/uk/), issued a statement 18 Sept. condemning secret talks between ACPO (Assoc of Chief Police Officers) and ISPs seeking to reach a ‘memorandum of understanding’ that could permit police access to intercept private data […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] and imprisoned, thus preventing him from giving evidence at the trail of unfortunate Libyans designated as the patsies. The same thing happened to Abraham Bolden, a black Secret Service agent who wanted to tell the Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] the other a Spanish-made Star automatic pistol.’ and ‘The link is the cartridges from the Star automatic pistol found at the scene of the killing. With the secret help of the Garda, these were tested by a scientist attached to the RUC forensic staff, Norman Tulip, and found to be identical with cartridges left […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
In March of this year, there was a major scandal over party funding in the United Kingdom. To some of us, this was an accident waiting to happen. In a country with many millions of voters who are allowed to exercise that vote only once every four or five years, relatively small numbers of people … Read more