The View from the Bridge

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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 […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] BfV. The indexes state the real name and codename of each spy. In the 1990s, they enabled the foreign intelligence network of the HVA and the Stasi’s security departments to be uncovered. They enabled the size of or 13 And the figure is not a mistake. He repeats it elsewhere on Quora: ‘Now in […]

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 […]

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

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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. […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

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[PDF file]: […] complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or persons connected with them in the early 80s. The main narrative runs to 417 pages with a further 73 pages of footnotes and an […]

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 […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called ‘pragmatism’ lead to […]

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