Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] some reason) has been floating around the JFK research world since the early 1970s. Torbitt looked quite promising initially: lots of interesting allegations; some old names, some new; and fragments of documentation. But as soon as you begin trying to check it out you find that the allegations are mostly unsubstantiated and uncheckable; and […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] marks of a genuine Communist directive’. Although it is difficult to parody the Stalinist mind, I doubt that even the Cominform would actually have written that ‘ new and concentrated effort must be made by specially suitable undercover activists to penetrate into that bastion of British capitalism and so set up the strongest possible […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] and it is the first time this has been published (which itself is pretty astonishing.) All punctuation and emphases are as in the original. Private and Confidential Notes on the Practice of Lobby Journalism, July 1969 Lobby Practice The Lobby journalist’s authority to work in Parliament is the inclusion of his name in a […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] (More Hennessy ‘gossip’ .) 4. Secret Intelligence (Richard Norton-Taylor, G., June 6th 1983) Thatcher Advisers Refuse To Face M.P.’s Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] period has the US supported regimes which tolerate or participate in the drug traffic? The last decade has seen two more, Afghanistan and Kosovo, in which the new wrinkle is that the drugs trade co-exists with Muslim Jihadists. ‘Afghanistan is now the world’s largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Europe;(2)and some of this technology’s ramifications for psychiatry and the disagnosis of mental illness, has been addressed by Carole Smith in an essay ‘On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology’. (3) Ultrasound Really, voices-in the-head is nothing these days: you can buy ultrasound machines […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] this sort of intervention to be rather bad form. Like the airline pilots, he disturbs the journey only occasionally, usually with a wry aside, as when he notes that: ‘1977 was supposed to be the year of punk, and certainly the music industry believed it to be so, dropping entire rosters of semi-established acts […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] as usual the UK was just part of the US PR operation, the ‘we are not alone’ factor. As has been frequently pointed out in these pages, New Labour was coopted by the US long before it took office. As for the events leading up to war, there isn’t much left to say. In […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] these MI6 lists, Cryptome published a list of IRA members which included Clare Short MP. Which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it? (1) Even if I k new the list was genuine – though how would I know? – does it matter that we have a list of MI6 names attached to countries? In […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] cupboard seemed a good idea. But these days, dozens of books about our ‘secret services’ later, the ‘Secret’ Intelligence Service flaunting its bureaucratic muscle in that shiny, new building on the Thames, we have intelligence stories everywhere. Mere collating of intelligence material seems less interesting – as does the publishing of names. Which might […]
