Andreas Malm, and Shora Esmailian London: Pluto Press, 2007, P/b £17.99 At a time when Iran is in the news on a daily basis, when war and rumours of war are being constantly circulated and global warming and peak oil are finally filtering into the public consciousness, the release of this book could not … Read more
Just ten years ago the issues were so simple, the arguments so clean. The concept of hackers was cute and quaint, best understood through Hollywood thrillers like ‘War Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange … Read more
[…] deliberately undermined by security scandals. No one as yet knows whether or not the Soviets manipulated these scandals but as H J van den Bergh, ex-head of BOSS, used to say to Gordon Winter, ‘They’d be stupid if they didn’t’. Exceptionally so. Rothschild the puppet-master? Perhaps the most interesting part of this book is […]
[…] from Thatcher. (Guardian 8th December 1983). Simkins spent several of his declining years preparing the massive tome drawing on time expired spy documents, backed by his old boss, Sir Howard Smith, Director General of MI5 until 1982. The veto was a shock since the book was commissioned by the Cabinet Office. It may have […]
[…] his Italian alter ego? Notes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1873866.stm For example, shortly after Blair became Prime Minister, Labour was forced to return a £1 million donation from the Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone after it emerged that he had lobbied Blair to delay a ban on the sport being sponsored by the tobacco industry. Martin Jacques, ‘The […]
[…] ministries’ , as well as MPs, ‘particularly Tory MPs’ and ‘the network of very senior civil servants’. At appropriate points the City arid the South African service BOSS are added for good measure. The idea that all those in these broad categories, extended to include former members, were somehow engaged in blackening the faces […]
[…] the Minister was kept ‘out of the loop’ and not informed of the deal. Mrs Beckett was soon removed and replaced by Mr. Mandelson, Mr Draper’s former boss, who approved the other half of the proposed fix, the PowerGen-East Midlands combine. So what? What is wrong with government swapping merger approval in return for […]
[…] not naive. It is said that Dr. Savimbi was recruited by British intelligence 1964-66.(Covert Action No 4 April/May 1979). Even stronger are his links to Lonrho. Its boss, ‘Tiny’ Rowland, has visited Savimbi at the residence in Rabat, lent by the King of Morocco to Unita’s President; and Lonrho executives have visited Unita’s headquarters […]
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, … Read more
