[…] of North Sea oil and gas but, hey, there’s always ‘the knowledge economy’. And if that fails, something else will turn up, won’t it? Won’t it? Notes 1 The Sunday Telegraph (Business) August 15 2004. 2 Bootle used to be the chief economist for the Midland Bank, before Midland was taken over. The […]
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, […]
[…] a first-past-the-post system. This would be an elementary consideration, of course, to anyone who had been a lowly ward organiser or similar. Blair was promoted by the new leader, John Smith, but quickly began intriguing against him. Seldon’s book offers a valuable account of this episode. In the Smith world view basically a […]
How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy […]
[…] comes with endorsements from no lesser personages than Jacques Vallée and Adam Curtis. And those guys are in my A team. A big ‘thank you’ to Central Books in London who have distributed Lobster with exemplary efficiency since issue 16. Without Central Books this magazine would have folded years ago. Notes His blog is at
[…] in Australia. (One of the major differences is that in Australia Butler plays a much more significant role than Martin has ever achieved in this country.) Analogous New Zealand activities, including seven pages on another Butler off-shoot, the New Zealand League of Rights, is discussed in Paul Spoonly’s recent essay. (15). In similar territory […]
[…] they’ve said. Or not said. In a universe of anonymous sources, we’re increasingly informed by ‘creative’ writers like Jason Blair at the Times, Stephen Glass at the New Republic, Jack Kelly at USA Today, and Woodward’s own protégé at the Post, Janet Cooke. Not surprisingly, the public becomes increasingly cynical as ‘news’ devolves into […]
[…] was all a hi-tech scam of course, and never likely to work. The real ‘beam weapons’ being developed are anti-personnel and mind control devices. (2) In the new, post Cold War climate, some curious alliances are being formed. The U.S. magazine Defense News, of January 11-17 1993, reported that Russian mind-control techniques — so-called […]
[…] the book will be familiar in outline if you have read the extant material on the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), Saunders has dug up mountains of new detail, and nothing else so vividly conveys the preposterous arrogance of the Ivy League, button-down, white Americans who were trying to regulate the non-communist world in […]
[…] trashing of Iraq. Billions of dollars of tax dollars in ‘aid’ have been stolen, as well as all the ‘legitimate’ profits made by US corporations servicing the new semi-privatised US military.(7) In any case, going into a situation where they have some notional or actual ‘interest’, killing lots of people, wrecking the country/area concerned […]
