The Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of a biography of Second World War SAS hero Lt. […]

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Weird/not weird

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] < http://slink.com.com/slink?212215 > There is much more on this at < www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega2002.htm > 3 There is a selection of stories about masts in the UK on the BBC web site at < http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsifs&tab= news&q=mobile+masts&x=13&y=8 > 4 Charles, Loomis, Shyl et al, ‘Electromagnetic Fields, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Prostate Cancer Mortality in Electric Utility Workers’ American […]

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Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] March 1999 http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/dti99.htm http://www.epic.org/ This document is no longer on the Labour website, but can be found in the ‘resource list’ at http://www.liberty.org.uk/cacib/ http://www.dti.gov.uk/CII/ana27p.html Computing, January 1999 BBC News February 20 1998: ‘UK Govt dithers on encryption regulation’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/encryption/newsid _58000/58499.stm Para 84, Interception Capabilities 2000, April 1999, working document of the STOA panel of […]

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Conservative Radicalism: a Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] climaxed with the ‘Maggie’s Militants’ edition of the BBC’s flagship documentary programme, Panorama, in 1984, based on Searchlight’s research, which led to successful legal action against the BBC. As it turned out, the significant infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the […]

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] CHRONICLE 35-46 DIR. PRACTICAL JOURNALISM LONDON UNIVERSITY 39-40 DEPUTY DIR. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION: SET UP GLOBE NEWS AGENCY 41-42 REP. OF HULTON PRESS IN SOUTH AMERICA 42-48 BBC LATIN AMERICAN SERVICE, CHMN. NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS LTD. AUTHOR COLES, S.J.W. ‘JACK’ IRD 40-50’S HEAD OF STAR NEWS AGENCY PAKISTAN -60’S INFORMATION OFFICE CRO […]

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PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Iraq as part of Britain’s ‘hearts and minds’ campaign: a sort of movie equivalent to British troops losing 9 – 3 to the Basrah football squad. ( BBC report following the fall of Basrah.) 4 The Times 7 April 2003. 5 The Observer, 12 January 2003. This is a wholly different conflict, albeit ripe […]

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Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] in St Helier, Jersey’s capital.’ 10 ‘Foreign Office officials are examining ways of using public and private funding to turn the BBC’s struggling international TV news channel, BBC World, into a global player. . . its existence would promote “good governance” and help raise Britain’s international profile’ – The Guardian 22 July 2002 11 […]

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The Kincora Scandal

Book review
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Chris Moore Marino Books, (an imprint of Mercier Press), 16 Hume St., Dublin 2, Ireland. £6.99 Chris Moore worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland during most of ‘the troubles’ and should have been ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. […]

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The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) Gary Murray (11), Robin Ramsay (12), […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] up in Private Eye (16 July, 1982, p. 20). Duncan Campbell and John Rentoul, ‘All Out War’, New Statesman, 24 August 1984. I learnt this from a BBC journalist shortly afterwards. Reported, for example in The Observer, 6 January, 1991. Strategic Advisory Group of the Joint Strategic Planning Staff, US Strategic Air Command, ‘The […]

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