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 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] 1981, the powers-that-be thought it sufficiently dangerous to make it the only thing that was removed from a 1981 Panorama documentary, the first about British intelligence and security agencies. Now we know why. The list makes it clear that the people on the left who thought they were being surveilled and bugged in the […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] practice undermines or impacts upon democracy. It might, for example, examine all the state conspiracies which now exist within this society; and since the armed forces, police, security and intelligence services (and the big corporations) are almost entirely unaccountable, such research would be entirely apt. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say […]