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 […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] So the invasion of Iraq was part of a drive to democratise the the Arab world and advance the cause of women in it! Notes 1. Colin Brown, Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice, ‘No 10 admits Hutton cover-up’, The Independent 17 July 2004. 2. A similar process is happening in education policy where, inch […]

Nazi UFOs Debunked

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] some nous and a good sceptical eye has done some serious work on it. In Fortean Studies vol 7, (eds. Ian Simmonds and Melanie Quin; London: John Brown Publishing, 2001) that most persistent of pamphleteers, Kevin McClure, has gone through the literature on the subject in great detail and concludes that the whole thing […]

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being … Read more

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] King MP (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow), ‘Losers win’, the Guardian, 18 November 2000 15 See, for example, Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (London: Little, Brown, 1997) and Sally Denton and Roger Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America, 1947-2000 (New York: Alfred […]

Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] 1991. See for example the P.N.L. student paper Fuse issue 167, June 1983, and Searchlight 109, July 1984, pp. 2-3. 22 May 1984, no. 10, p. 1. For a full account see the Report of P.N.L. Committee of Inquiry 1985, chaired by Sheila Brown for the now-defunct Greater London Council, published by Swindon Press, 1985.

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] No less than one of the creators of New Labour. Ms Hobsbawn, for many years a PR business partner of Sarah Macauley, the wife of Chancellor Gordon Brown, was one of the key figures in promoting the political project now so universally respected for its adherence to transparency, accuracy and straight dealing with journalists. […]

A Bilderberg Press Release

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

A Bilderberg Press Release I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release before, but this is unmistakably a press release from last year’s Bilderberg meeting.(1) There is the occasional oddity in this, possibly caused by e-mail transmission, which I’ve highlighted, and I’ve arranged the participants by country, rather than alphabetically as in the original. … Read more

Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have to be bought: […]

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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