Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Secretary Rifkind to take his sacking to an industrial tribunal, and had his appeal against dismissal rejected by the chairman of the Intelligence Service Tribunal, Lord Justice Brown. Tomlinson’s mother said (the Sunday Times 21 December 1997) that her son described the Intelligence Service Tribunal as ‘a complete farce, a star chamber where he […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for … Read more

Secret Underground Cities, and, Secret Nuclear Bunkers

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] and who-knows-what-else that were going to ensure the state would continue even if there was no one left to govern. Well, we had Civil Defence (whitewash and brown paper bags), but even its most devout apologists finally accepted that it was all kidology and strictly for the mugs. Now, the amazing thing about these […]

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] getting a suitcase onto a plane. A Scottish police team in Malta found that Dalkomini, as well as Talb, had visited the island; that Talb owned a brown Samsonite suitcase of the type used for the bomb; and that Talb flew out of Malta on 26 November, 1988 — just three days after the […]

New Labour Notes

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] despite the Labour Party’s internecine squabbling, is one of the awkward facts omitted from Phillip Gould’s The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, Little Brown and Co., London, 1998. In the postscript to the BAP pamphlet Weyer seeks to refute the Tom Easton thesis on BAP in Lobster 33 which, he […]

Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

From Chris R. Tame, London, UK Re: Edward Leigh MP and the Liverpool News. “Some years ago Leigh wrote an anti-CND article for the Sunday Telegraph. The Liverpool News, an obscure pro-National Front rag wrote to him to ask him if they could reprint it. He automatically said yes, having no idea whatsoever of the … Read more

Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew very little until he began to research his life. The result […]

Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] in a process of manipulation and patronage that has slipped from being about covert funding to overt flirtation and can be traced right through to Blair and Brown today. It is true that New Labour was strongly influenced by the Clinton team’s concept of ‘triangulation’, or what’s now being called ‘convergence’. But what is […]

Into the Whitehall maw

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] is, under RIPA s59(3), similarly required to assist the Tribunal in their investigations, though in his first report, published in October 2001, the Commissioner, Lord Justice Simon Brown, does not refer to providing assistance to the IPT. (9) A further Commissioner, known as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner for Northern Ireland, is also established under […]

The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] same thing as Stuart Hall and Peter Hitchens. He also wrote off the working-class as a significant political force and therefore agrees with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that ‘the class war is over’. How then, does he propose to change things? People can run around the world from G8 summit to IMF conferences […]

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