Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Parish Notices Thanks for material since the last Lobster to, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Jane Affleck, Anthony Carew, Harry Irwin, Harlan Girard, Steve Wright and John Booth. Corrections I get surprisingly few anonymous or abusive letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
HP source ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’, the drama-documentary broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 March, was a strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Marcia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is the […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] so we didn’t have any choice. I find this quite disturbing.’ Mr Hepworth-Lloyd has contacted the police over the suspected theft of the voting cards.() Resident Frederick Wright is 73 and of sound mind; he ‘nominated’ someone called Jonathan Ellwood. I asked Mr Wright if he knew Mr Ellwood. The answer was an immediate […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] its active protagonists, and with the stakes reduced to ideas rather than concrete interests. This was in sharp contrast with the USA, where the impetus of C. Wright Mills’s pioneering study of the network of interests involved in the Cold War (Mills, 1956) was continued by a flourishing group of scholars. There has been […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] issue, 0/88, has come our way, though a second issue is said to have appeared. (A free sample copy of issue 0/88 might be had from Nick Wright, 34 Woodnock Road, London SW16 6TZ.) Last 1 heard he had some left. Send an A4 addressed envelope with 40p worth of stamps on it.) The […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] the so-called Communist countries and the Communist-controlled World Federation of Trade Unions.(31) The ICFTUE no longer exists.(32) Postscript On January 9 1995, I wrote to John H. Wright, Information and Privacy Co-ordinator of the CIA, asking, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), if the Agency could supply me with copies of any records […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] me to the newsgroups. On 7 May 2002 I received the following unsolicited e-mail purporting to come from a Detective Constable in the Metropolitan Police named Liz Wright: ‘Mr Henderson, the Fyfield you are concerned with is Frances Fyfield, real name Frances Hegarty; check your TV listings for last night. She is a senior […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and supported by the later publications of Peter Wright, Paul Foot and Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril.(3) Now the consensus interpretation is that the ‘armies’ were products of a paranoia about ‘reds under the beds’ […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] be, and should be, ubiquitous in its assessment of risk and prevention of subversion and terrorism; that far from being the threat to democracy described by Wallace, Wright, Massiter et al, MI5, as Mrs Rimington put it in, ‘enhances’ democracy.(5) Even if this isn’t rejected out of hand at the outset, we don’t know […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Would this inner circle have included the monarch and the Lord Chancellor, among the senior members of the Council? Apart from continual hints from the late Peter Wright to the effect that the pre-statutory security and intelligence services owed their allegiance to the Crown and not Parliament, nothing is known about the relationship, the […]