Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] for that is what ‘the national interest’ means. But what is the ‘British economic interest’? British economic interests? The annual report for 2004/5 of the Intelligence and Security Committee noted in chapter 13 under the heading ‘Economic well-being’: ‘We took evidence from Ministers, departments and the Agencies on the Agencies’ work to support and […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] replied in the issue of 22 October, claimed to be bored with O’Hara (after smearing him for nearly a year!), but admitted he had dealings with the security services (unspecified). October also saw Alexander Baron’s curiously titled Editors! Are You Being Fed A Load Of Bullshit? You Are If You Subscribe to Searchlight: A […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] containing it is withheld from the Public Record Office in London for the next seventy years. According to Britain’s Foreign Secretary to release it would harm national security. That some such message was received by the Americans on 26 November was later confirmed by the Army enquiry which sat from July to October 1944, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] were the result of a ‘clerical error’. A Special Branch officer, flown out to India, later admitted that the erasures had been done ‘on advice from the security service’. (Eastern Eye 4 June) The second concerns Detective Sergeant Michael Hill of Hertfordshire CID who stumbled upon one of the many crooked deals being conducted […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] dynamic employment market and to stimulating research and innovation. A stronger European continent must also take into consideration the consolidation of other determining factors such as: the security of our external frontiers; an adequate migration policy; a firm defence policy able to respond to the changing international scenario; a common foreign policy that can […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] on Nader in the latest issue of Steamshovel. My second observation concerns Jonathan Moyle, the ‘gung ho Queen and country man’ you mention in your article on security agencies, who died after making inquiries into a helicopter deal between the Iraqis and Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen. You discuss this as one of several […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] the other hand some of their political aims are exposed. May I quote an excerpt from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the basis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question […]
