Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] Anti-Fascist Action publication. Ray Hill with Andrew Bell, The Other Face of Terror (London: Grafton, 1988, p. 180) The refined version, that C18 was created by the secret state in the first place, Copsey spares readers. Yet, if true, it raises more interesting academic questions than he could begin to comprehend. Fascism 1914-45, (UCL […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Pimlott a reluctance to believe it was really as bad as that, not in dear old Britain, not in the sixties and seventies. But Pimlott is a former Labour Party parliamentary candidate. Is it simply the politician’s reluctance to acknowledge encroachment of extra-parliamentary forces, especially the British secret state, on the turf marked ‘parliamentary politics’?
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] (and maybe had his phone tapped for the attempt). In an article in Times Higher Educational Supplement (24 April 1987) he wonders: “Does Britain really have a secret conspiratorial history which nobody is to be allowed to get wind of? The scraps of intelligence that have got through the fence suggest that it may […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] of heinous deeds. (22) Meanwhile, SIS and MI5 launch a campaign to attract those from various ethnic groups living in Britain to sign up to Her Majesty’s secret services…..(23) Spook PR and War with Iraq Nowhere has Whitehall’s Cold War (and macho) PR-machine been more in evidence than in its handling of Iraq. Take, […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] letter (11 December, 1963) to President Johnson saying that her son had known Oswald when he was in Stanley, North Dakota. The letter was given by the Secret Service to the FBI who sent agents to interview both Timmer and his mother but, as Armstrong notes, there is no evidence that any of this […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Tory MP’s Anthony Nelson and Rupert Allason (Hansard 1 February ’90 columns 459 and 460); and in print by the BBC’s John Ware in the Spectator (‘The Secret World of Walter Mitty’ 24 March ’90). In this astonishing article Ware repeats and expands slightly the snippets about Wallace’s parachuting activities he published first in […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. ‘Does Brown understand economics?’ I asked him. ‘Well, he reads lots of big books,’ said Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] 1971, Uruguay in February 1973, and Chile in September 1973. (68) Recent French books report that in this same general period former French members of the anti-Gaullist Secret Army (OAS), along with their opposite numbers from the pro-Gaullist barbouzes, worked for the security forces of Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay … and Venezuela and Argentina, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back in with the Americans and restore our standing in the world. In the real world, this […]
