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

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s SECURITY […]

We The Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

A. J. Davies Little Brown and Co London, 1995, £20 Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative history. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake’s standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] contract by the undiplomatic Geldof to polish the public appearances of the FCO is linked to the closeness of the former Boomtown Rat to Blair and Gordon Brown in last year’s G8 gathering is a question not likely to be asked by the many journalists now on the Geldof payroll. On Ten Alps’ books […]

The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] asking Boothroyd to inform on four MPs was just one of many contacts between MI5 and the Parliamentary Labour Party in the sixties. Four years earlier George Brown, then Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Chair of the Party’s Organisation Sub-committee, its policing function, approached the journalist Chapman Pincher and told him that […]

Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] for deeds and orders are taken for their effects. Nor is this a new phenomenon. The political genius of the group that surrounded Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the 1990s was to see this system for what it was and then to develop rules for the acquisition of power that may have been […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] DISSATISFIED LOCKHEED EMPLOYEE.THE CODE REPRODUCED BY THE MAGAZINE LISTS M POMPIDOU AS COSMOS, MR WILSON AS POINTER, AND HERR ERHARD AS HALIBUT FORMER BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER GEORGE BROWN FIGURES AS POWDER. * * * On 10th June 1976, not long after Wilson’s resignation, this intriguing telex rattled out of the Reuter news service. Although […]

Fantasy Island

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] we have are politicians who are driven by NuLab’s major policy imperatives: pleasing the City and following what focus groups tell them. I do not believe that Brown, Balls et al are unaware of the consequences of what E and A call the borrowing binge we have been going through in this country in […]

Who were they travelling with? SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Polly Toynbee – and another, Mary Stott, was elected to the party’s National Committee. Peter Jenkins, its senior political columnist (and husband of Polly Toynbee), and Derek Brown, its media correspondent, were known to be supporters. No newspaper had as high a proportion of Alliance supporters among its readers, and many SDP activists regard […]

The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] region which this inevitably created, supplied them with a reason/excuse for maintaining a strong military presence there, in the form of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo (built by Brown and Root, of whose parent company, Halliburton, the present Vice President of the US Dick Cheney was CEO). It is worthy of note that Camp Bondsteel […]

Europe Inc and Blowing the Whistle

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the only honest man with any bottle on the EU staff, didn’t have to look hard to find corruption: it was everywhere he went.(5) Notes London: Little, Brown, 1999 The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, (London: Little Brown, 1997) which has recently been remaindered and is around for about a […]

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