South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must get past whatever Martini-drinking stereotypes may be […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] police, ‘fter carrying out the murder, the team was driven away in a car with Burundian diplomatic plates; the professionals flew out that evening’. One South African security expert, whom Wrong interviewed, told her that the killing clearly demonstrated the influence of Mossad on Rwandan intelligence. The assassination ‘was standard Israeli MO’. The regime, […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] old age pensioners.4 It also appears to be the case that both 3 The press reported that the brother of Danczuk’s ex-partner – who works as a security guard in the Manchester area – was being charged with historical sex offences dating back twenty-five years. See The Daily Mirror and The Independent 28 October […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] news event.13 Trump and classified material post-Presidency The fact that Donald Trump mishandled classified material would seem to be beyond doubt. His stashing of documents with national security classification markings – not only at his Mar-a-Lago home but elsewhere, note14 – shows a consistently loose relationship with the need for genuine secrecy. What’s also […]

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[…] news event.13 Trump and classified material post-Presidency The fact that Donald Trump mishandled classified material would seem to be beyond doubt. His stashing of documents with national security classification markings – not only at his Mar-a-Lago home but elsewhere, note14 – shows a consistently loose relationship with the need for genuine secrecy. What’s also […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] motorcade but failed as they had targeted the wrong car. As a result of the explosion and the ensuing chaos in which shots were fired, civilians and security police were maimed and killed.’4 At the liaison meeting with MI6 after these reports emerged, it was stated that this had been the MI6/LIFG plot in […]

The Brexit impasse

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Scottish secession from the UK and therefore of the break-up of the country, a process likely to result in the loss of our seat on the UN Security Council. The UK would be left facing profound economic and diplomatic isolation, depriving it of influence over a whole range of pressing international questions including the […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to secure this objective. Both governments made their case with press releases and presentations (including one by the US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN Security Council) using collections of classified documents and intelligence assessments. The problem was that Iraq did not have any WMD. UN weapons inspectors did not find any […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] discussions that reveal only fragments of relevant information’. At the same time, he has shown no ‘willingness to learn about policy’, not even with regard to national security. (p. 139) The greatest influence on his thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, […]

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