[…] work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be new to most Lobster readers, as it was to me. There is a section early on covering BOSS in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, which was […]
[…] 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 […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America […]
[…] the German magazine Der Spiegel, the elimination of the Ricord network by Nixon and the BNDD in late 1972 was promptly followed by the establishment of a new Latin American drug network with international fascist connections, under the leadership of Alberto Sicilia Falcon, a Cuban exile. When arrested by Mexican police in 1975, as […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] allegations and not the other way around and there is no justification at all for using it as an excuse for refusal to take his allegations seriously. Notes Michael R. Stevens, ‘T. S. Eliot’s Neo-Medieval Economics’, in Markets and Morality, vol. 2, no. 2 (1999). Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, a biography. Volume 2: […]
[…] KGB about Lobster can only have been, at best, about issues 1-6. In other words, this is bullshit, Mr Gordiefsky merely passing on a smear from his new employers in that funny Lego building being erected on the bank of the River Thames in London. On 22 November, three days after this curious telephone […]
[…] of Andrew Gilligan blamed by the internal BBC inquiry while all his superiors escaped censure throws a little more light on the tightness of the New Labour network. Conducting the investigation was Caroline Thomson, the BBC director of policy, who is married to Roger Liddle, Tony Blair’s adviser on defence. Thomson and […]
[…] Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient […]
