Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] an interesting and detailed account of the Reagan administrations’ attempts to ‘roll back revolution’. Molloy would justify by this by claiming that LIC really was something substantially new, not just ‘counter-insurgency under a new name’: ‘The extent to which it was predominantly political psychological (and not military) in nature and its activities privatised and […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] 14 March 1993. The Independent of that date had as the heading to its second Hatton story, ‘Prosecution hung on two ambiguous diary entries’.) This is the latest instance where there is almost enough evidence to show that the prosecution was mounted by the state simply to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] is one of the best books on the war in Northern Ireland I have read and the best account we have of the loyalist-British state alliance there. Notes 2 My guess is we will never get that, not even if we get some kind of Truth and Reconciliation process there. And there will be […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] course; but, pace Foucault, the most lumpen version of Marxism, gets you to the same place, doesn’t it? I’m not convinced that Rogers has done anything that new here, but she has written a brisk, mostly readable account of the use of the Official Secrets Act by the British state from a radical perspective, […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] curious. (b) Splinter Factor p. 163 says: ‘Meanwhile. the CIA had been working on the Clementis case. In October 1949 Clementis attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York and immediately a two-pronged attack, designed to persuade him to seek political asylum, was launched by the CIA through its State Department outlets and by […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] about as far from being Mata Haris as one could imagine. But when did reality get in the way of a publisher’s idea of a catchy title? Notes My first attempt at assembling these fragments was ‘The British Right – scratching the surface’ in Lobster 12. A description of these groups is in Stephen […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the death camps, Ribbentrop’s influence on war and politics had declined as fast as Tony Blair’s influence on war and politics is expected to decline after 2007. Notes The accused were indicted on four counts. Count One concerned a general conspiracy to wage aggressive war. Count Two concerned substantive crimes in furtherance of that […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] what GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated twentieth century British politics by never having any serious rivals on the right. Contrast the Liberal and Labour parties and at […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] aside for two other examples. Ben Lucas of Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (known as ‘LLM’) learned that on June 11, Gordon Brown would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called ‘… intelligence which in market terms would […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Once the papers have printed it the damage is done. Even when the facts come out, the original image is the one that sticks.’ (p. 238) Miller notes that, ‘The day after every single British national newspaper and television news programme had given their readers and viewers a false account of what had happened […]
