Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] and got in touch to query the advert’s provenance, so that one didn’t make it into the light of day. Which sounds exactly like what the British secret state would do to you, if you were on their shit list. Reacting to another wildly exaggerated report, written up for the digestion of senior SDS […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] he might have what we now call Alzheimer’s disease (from which his father had suffered).1 This is too prosaic for some and they keep looking for the secret scandal which they know must be the real explanation for Wilson’s departure. The Times gave us the reminiscences of a barrister, Sir Desmond de Silva, who, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a citizen of Liechtenstein, a flight to London was certainly feasible. 8 See Andrew Rosthorn, ‘What Did They Know And When?’, Tribune, 27 July 2012; and ‘Top Secret at Queens’, Yorkshire Ridings Magazine, summer 2013, pp. 122-125. Rosthorn’s story has also been published as an epilogue on pp. 448-58 of Jan Needle’s novel Death […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] torments Kissinger with that ‘does that bother you?’ The printed page just does not convey it. But of course quite a bit of Nixon’s activities were supposedly secret. Surely a cuntocracy is dependent on a vast hidden propaganda apparatus? But such techniques of control are merely the basic methods by which an individual or […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] where angels and dupes fear to tread. 1 See my ‘Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book’ in this issue. 2 David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1967) p. xiii. Still, after all these years, the best book on the subject. The author jumps about like a pimp […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] future challenges Bigger Government: The Future of Government Expenditure in Advanced Economies Marc Robinson Arolla Press, 2020 https://biggergovernment.com The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy David Graeber London: Melville House, 2015 The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Mariana Mazzucato, London: Anthem Press, 2015 (2nd […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] solicitor admitted that Kerr had worked for the Economic League and, when that folded, The Consulting Association had been set up by construction firms to continue its secret vetting work. Kerr was paid to run the organisation which was not registered as a company but was described by his solicitor as a trade association […]