Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] a matter of state security so why bother to tell a Liberal Democrat MP who was never going to be in charge of the Ministry; or the MoD was as much in the dark as the rest of us. But we should also look critically at claims on sources. By September we have references […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] my overcoat, in their front room, with them, Fred and his wife, Marie-Claire. At one point I said something like this: ‘So on one side there’s the MOD, MI5 and all their media assets, and on the other there’s us, with hardly a penny between us.’ Everybody laughed. We laughed a lot in those […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] material and are thus impossible to evaluate at present. It is on the plus side that they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] up in Whitehall to look at potentially embarrassing FOI requests, was hardly a surprise.() But I did not imagine something as ingenious as the claim by the MOD that millions of their files have been contaminated by asbestos and are therefore inaccessible. () Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at . 4 3 used by Wallace to highlight McGrath’s homosexuality and his role in running a children’s home) and wrote […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] 8 Foreign Office quoted in Curtis (see note 5) p. 41. security interests.’9 To the general public, NATO is promoted as a humanitarian intervener. As the UK MoD has said, the public only tolerates war when it perceives ‘moral legitimacy’. Libya has the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Nigeria has the second largest […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] causing the deaths of 35 people. Reporting in 2001, ‘a BBC investigation has confirmed that secret experiments were causing heavy rainfall’, though the Ministry of Defence ( MOD) denied any connection between the seeding experiments and the flood. Initially, the MoD even denied conducting any cloud seeding experiments at all. ‘Survivors tell how the […]
