Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to a reasonable percentage of the revenues from North Sea Oil – would have ‘the strongest national currency in Europe’. His report was promptly classified as Top Secret and was only released, under the 30 year rule, in 2005. Although HM Treasury and the media have failed to broaden understanding of why people support […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] it was committed to playing its part in European Monetary Union.4 On 19 October 1997 The Guardian noted: The last Tory Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, now makes no secret of the fact that he deeply regrets the day when, under pressure from rightwing Cabinet colleagues, he agreed to commit the Tories to holding a referendum […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] book about her and that incident has been published in America: Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun And The Secret Plot To Sanction The Iraq Invasion (PoliPoint Press, Sausalito, CA. 2008). This is reviewed in issue 39 of New Zealand’s Peace Researcher at Roderick Russell R […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] in 1988 led to a joint career as a magazine publisher and house-husband, balancing domestic duties with efforts to expose the murky machinations of the Anglo- American secret state. Producing Lobster is Ramsay’s main raisor d’etre, but he’s realistic about its ability tc promote major change. “Lobster is a futile remnant of an ancient […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Pakistan not only assisted the Taliban, but also provided sanctuary for Osama bin Laden. Indeed, in retaliation for the US forces killing of bin Laden, the Pakistani secret state, the ISI, sponsored a series of attacks on US and international targets inside Afghanistan by the Haqqani network (a Taliban affiliate known to be close […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] inside information on a presidential campaign. The whole thing was so senseless and bungled that it almost looked like some kind of a setup.’ 1 In his Secret Agenda (1984) Jim Hougan showed that one of the phones the ‘plumbers’ targeted was being used by DNC staffers to book hookers.2 The ‘plumbers’ were after […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] after this exchange with Mr Challice, the Green Party’s sole MP, Caroline Lucas, revealed that she and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry had been subject to comprehensive secret surveillance by a police anti-extremism task force, the The National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.1 That stalwart friend of the spooks, Professor Anthony Glees, was on […]

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