Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] trial for murder in 1951 in an apparent ‘domestic’, for which he received a suspended sentence even though convicted of first degree murder; and the details of security investigations of him by the Office of Naval 1 Available on her website at . 2 The report of the expert is reproduced in the book […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[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 […]
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 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 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]: […] 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 […]