Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Throughout the byzantine and years-long unfolding of the News International hacking scandal, there have been a few glimpses of what might have been peripheral involvement by the Security Service, MI5. I have only been keeping half an eye on the entire affair so the one that sticks in my mind is the 2011 revelation […]

Blowback: a Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge by Miles Taylor

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Happen to Him’ Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge Miles Taylor New York: Atria, 2023, p/b, £12.99 John Newsinger Miles Taylor is a ‘ security expert’ who had worked for the George W Bush administration. In February 2017 he went to work for President Donald Trump in the Department of Homeland […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 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 […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his collaboration with Marks.19 6 – MI6 The writers for Friends/Frendz magazine, as well as James McCann and Howard Marks, were all on the radar of the security services. A retired police Special Branch officer, who worked in Northern Ireland and Britain in the 1970s, said that he knew ‘quite a lot about Friends’, […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of manifest destiny sought to resolve this contradiction by stipulating that domestic conquest was not imperial. Control of the Western hemisphere has always been defined as national security, not of asserting US domination. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the actions of the US government in Asia since 1910 without acknowledging that the US […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1941. A careful scrutiny of the material published, both here and abroad, suggests it is entirely possible that many prominent figures – in the military, royalty, the security services and Parliament, where Churchill lacked a majority – wanted out of the war by this point, via a compromise peace. However, as we know, rather […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Lobster 61 arrest of Ratco Mladic. * IPRD ‘The Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) is an independent, non-profit, transdisciplinary research organisation promoting equality, sustainability and security. Based in London and founded in April 2001, the IPRD operates as a voluntary collective and global network of scholars, scientists and researchers.’ Thus the IPRD’s […]

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