The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[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 […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and the prospects and the opportunities. It was that we didn’t understand that there needed to be a model, a very different prospectus in terms of that security, that feeling of community.’’ ’ And here’s the author’s description of Johnson’s arrival for the 2021 byelection in the constituency of Blunkett’s one-time Cabinet colleague, Peter […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the story concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals like Duncan Campbell and Tony Bunyan, had worked out for themselves that Mrs Thatcher was the candidate of the security state. That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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’ […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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. […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That report noted: The money was also invested […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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 […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] use in Dublin, and the White House helpfully confirmed the identities of the persons ‘attached to the Embassy’ for the President’s visit and even of his personal security detail.7 A frantic search commenced to find Kennedy’s remaining Irish relatives. Distant cousins were unearthed and interviewed at length by the media.8 Finally, there were approaches […]

Accessibility Toolbar