Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] figures such as former Philippines president Fidel Ramos and former Thai premier Anand Panyarachun; former Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl, and Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission, the US stock market regulator. Such a roster ensures that multi-million dollar deals are done with ‘a drink and a wink’ by old […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] decided to officially declare its existence as the UDA becomes more weak, ineffectual and incapable of defending Protestant workers and working class homes against attacks by the Security Forces. Composed of more socialist orientated and class conscious members of the UDA, the Army came into being as a result of growing dissatisfaction and frustration […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] heard of. The case received little publicity, getting buried under 9-11. See the collection of articles at There is also a sense that in not taking serious security precautions while running for the Democratic nomination in 1968, Robert was inviting his own death. Talbot has/had an interesting blog documenting the reaction of the American […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 Ian Macgregor and AMAX We have followed one of Macgregor’s leads into the British Establishment; now we return to the man himself. He was born in 1912 in Kinlochleven and graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in metallurgical engineering. He was a trainee manager at the British … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] similarly marginalised. Yet, as this book concludes, ‘calls are monitored, travel circumscribed, and torture is again being routinized (sic). All this is done in the name of security in the War on Terror.’ What was most worrying about the recent G20 protests in London was the way the police have been encouraged to distance […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Canary Wharf. Yet long before the credit crunch, says Augar, there were dissident voices. Labour’s natural supporters, especially in the trade unions, were protesting about the in security and inequalities resulting from the growing power of private equity and the tax breaks for non-doms, a group Augar says accounted for half of the increase […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the government decide if the UIRA ceasefire was genuine’. It is said the Kelly was tipped off about the bug by someone in the Northern Ireland office. Security sources were said to be ‘very angry’ about the tip-off. We are to believe that someone in Kelly’s position didn’t assume his house was bugged? Didn’t […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] inevitable. The world changes, priorities change and the people writing for Lobster change. When Lobster began in 1983 its chief focus was information on the intelligence and security services. There was almost no information on them in those days and every scrap seemed important. These days such information is available in abundance and I […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our […]
