[…] outline for another publisher. Incidentally, the one thing it conspicuously doesn’t do is detail Mrs Thatcher’s ‘friends’. That is just another typical Pluto ‘selling’ title. RR The New Right 1960-68: with epilogue 1969-80 Jonathan Kolky (London 1983) In which author Kolky wakes up to discover that his PhD thesis can be tarted-up with a […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] especially one as ambitious as this, there are bound to be errors. A few I noted at random are: an error in the address for the relatively new civil libertarian group Diversity; and in the entry for Feminists Against Censorship, the book Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures is attributed to the wrong ‘authors’ (it […]
[…] had founded the Project for Transitional Democracies, was president of the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO and had served as executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). His formal day job, as it were, was director of strategic planning for the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s biggest arms company. Hadley […]
[…] on the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult is the New Labour group currently fronting the Labour Party. Tony Blair gives every indication to me of being about to drift away on a pillow of guff from […]
[…] ‘exactly so’. From December 2002, Glass interviews Noam Chomsky, who later gives a talk at St. Paul’s Cathedral: ‘I’ve never heard him speak down to anyone’, he notes, not, presumably, expecting any reader to demur. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to […]
[…] systems worldwide including Carnivore (see below) and SORM (Russian FSB’s internet surveillance project); plus extensive links on electronic surveillance. The original source for the first Echelon report (New Statesman 12 August 1988) is revealed as Margaret Newsham, who worked at Menwith Hill from 1978 onwards as a software sytem support co-ordinator. Newsham talks about […]
[…] girlfriend and also a former MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or k new of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very […]
[…] the British imperialism of old. (Vide his Bangalore speech of January 2002.) But you can’t have everything; and within its limits this is a fine, clear and (so far as Blair is concerned) a damning book. Bernard Porter’s latest book is a new edition of his Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
[…] schools and hospitals is beyond doubt. What is the purpose of these ELF transmissions? Who is transmitting them? Why are UK government departments withholding information about this? Notes The opening sentence of a recent story in The Times was: ‘American and Norwegian hospitals were involved in sterilisation experiments on the mentally retarded over a […]
