Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Bloody Sunday, in as much as the British state’s colonial psy-ops techniques, introduced into Northern Ireland after the shootings helped provoke a kind of insurgency, the BBC broadcast on 22 March a radio documentary, ‘The spin war in Northern Ireland’ about the British state’s psychological operations in Northern Ireland. This may still be […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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

[PDF file]: […] for avant-garde jazz. Like many other post-war dissidents, it was Radio Luxembourg which pointed the way to an exciting new world beyond the cosy confines of the BBC. “In the late fifties you had the BBC Light Programme or the Home Service, and then there was this decadent stuff swimming through the ether from […]

Kicora review

Lobster Issue

[…] the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his account of trying to investigate Kincora over the years: meeting brick walls to begin with; fragments of […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Matthews’ piece in the previous issue, ‘A tale of two Islingtons’,57 mentions Gerry Reynolds as being one of Jeremy Corbyn’s predecessors as MP for that constituency. A BBC news report on the Information Research Department (IRD) and the transfer of thousands of its files to the National Archives mentions that Gerry Reynolds had contacted […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] found out what was going to happen and objected he just dosed them up so they didn’t know whether they were coming or going. In April 2009 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary by James Maw entitled Revealing the Mind Bender General. Maw interviewed several of Sargant’s patients who spoke of their lives being […]

Kicora review

Lobster Issue

[…] the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his account of trying to investigate Kincora over the years: meeting brick walls to begin with; fragments of […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the miners’ strike and then funding various I discussed this in my ‘The View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 51. The source of the story was the BBC documentary ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’ which is on-line at . 10 In 1980 General Sir Walter Walker published his account of the global Soviet threat, […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] then that ‘Robert’ might also have 4 These were Frank Steele and Michael Oatley, both of MI6. I found it redolent of first episode of the 1985 BBC TV series ‘Edge of Darkness’ – a bit of a niche reference, I admit, but if you know, you know. 5 6 This is in the […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] scene for international economic justice and environmental protection. 7 8 9 Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine, p. 231 See . But I have never seen him on (for example) BBC or Channel 4 (this does not of course mean he has never been interviewed there but it does suggest that any appearances have been somewhat limited). […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] then that ‘Robert’ might also have 4 These were Frank Steele and Michael Oatley, both of MI6. I found it redolent of first episode of the 1985 BBC TV series ‘Edge of Darkness’ – a bit of a niche reference, I admit, but if you know, you know. 5 6 This is in the […]

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