Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Nick Kochan London: Thomson, 2005, £19.99, h/b/b Nick Kochan is one of a small band of writers who try to bring together business and politics in an effort to understand a world often rendered incomprehensible by narrow specialists in these fields. He moves from the safe places think of the cosy world of … Read more
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A … Read more
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] the security and intelligence services. Communications between Britain and Ireland were intercepted via an MOD installation at Capenhurst in Cheshire and later, it is claimed, by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that RIPA fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a principle enshrined in the HRA and ECHR. (3) In […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Published 7/14/21 Sept 2002. ‘Uncovering the extent to which our daily lives are watched, recorded and analysed by others’. Articles cover many different aspects of privacy; surveillance; Echelon, GCHQ; workplace surveillance; Freedom of Information Act; data collection; data privacy, eg financial and medical confidentiality; using the Data Protection Act; Observer Libertywatch campaign http://www.observer.co.uk/libertywatch ‘These […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] calls between Britain and Ireland, including legally privileged material confidential to the complainants, were routinely intercepted by an MoD installation at Capenhurst, Cheshire, and later by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a right established by the HRA and ECHR. […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Fijian politics, which has been made increasingly chaotic by various coups and counter-coups over the last 14 years, is dominated by racial identity interests. On the one side are the native Fijians, the original Polynesian inhabitants of the island, and on the other, the Indian Fijians. The native Fijians, though still comprising 51% of the … Read more