Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] wants to replace Trident, begin to stray from Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran ‘two brains’ David Willetts on hand for a future Conservative cabinet. Already a powerful influence on David Cameron is Steve Hilton,() an early BAP recruit and  a fellow trustee of the Citizenship Foundation with Maclay. Guardian […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] and on the Euro in the lead-up to the European elections. Crucially, senior staff at the BBC managed the news to such an extent that the Pro-Euro Conservative Party, which received just 1% of the popular vote, received infinitely more coverage than did my Party, which achieved 8% of the vote. Yet, when we […]

Philip Agee, the KGB and us

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were reluctant to take. A perfect example occurred shortly after I became head of Foreign Counterintelligence in 1973. CIA officer Philip Agee approached our […]

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — … Read more

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] of the 19th century, a new wave of working class secret societies – including the Oddfellows, Buffaloes and Forresters – appeared. These groups, based on the highly conservative world of British Freemasonry, were an important index of the emergence of a working class politics based on acceptance of the social order (and male domination).As […]

The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

Robert Fisk London: Fourth Estate, 2005, £25.00   This very fine book runs to more than 1,300 pages, is well footnoted, referenced and indexed, carries a helpful bibliography and is written by one of the most fluent, knowledgeable and thoughtful journalists of our time. That part of its dedication is to Fisk’s parents ‘who taught … Read more

Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the Labour Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the rest of the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] according to some sources part-funded by Rupert Murdoch – to continue to defame many of his old elected political targets, thus ‘raising a favourable wind’ for the Conservative prime minister in the miners’ strike and all that followed. An earlier BBC political editor When John Cole was narrowly beaten by Peter Preston in the […]

Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] League. The Tory MP Sir Patrick Wall is the BACC Hon. President. BACC joined the WACL in 1983. Dally is ex-RAF, and was an agent for the Conservative Party for 11 years. He worked for something called Intelligence International Ltd. from 1969 to 1984. BACC recently published a book by Dally, The Hong Kong […]

UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

For almost two generations, researchers in the UFO field have suspected that there is a cover-up by US government agencies which prevents any meaningful progress in discovering the facts behind the UFO myth. The single most important factor supporting this view has been the alleged crash of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. … Read more

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