Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] tasks available to them also at that time’.6 (Tasks that were, please note, ‘available to them’ and not, presumably, pressingly in need of attention.) Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) also raised concerns about record keeping by MI5 in connection to the 7/7 bombings. In paragraphs 171 & 172 and paragraph 283 of the […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] companies ‘were now in their element, sabotaging left-wing regimes as readily as they propped upright-wing dictatorships’. By the time Thatcher left office, ‘Britain had a well-established private security industry’ that would eventually give birth to the likes of G4S. (p. 8) KMS was one of the path-breakers in helping create this new political world. […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Noon every Wednesday way into the silly season and beyond. Here are a few samples from the prosperous Tory loyalist, a trusted member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and a central figure in party life from his splendid Westminster pad for more than 30 years. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ‘lunatic self-seeking’ […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] sad day for us all, but there is something to learn from and reflect on in terms of our humanitarian commitment and our willingness to re-engage with security.’ Two of the things ‘to learn’ from Blunkett’s references went unremarked by him, and they might just might have punctured some of the high-flown rhetoric from […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Winter 2010 always need money for ‘vigilance’. 4 Then add in the fact that Reid is a consultant to G4S (formerly Group 4 Securicor), the world’s largest security company with a big interest in ‘homeland security’, airport handling and in Israel. (Lord Reid, as well as being a leading advocate of the Iraq invasion […]