Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] new mouthpiece.14 Mr Murdoch snapped up 20th Century Fox and six US TV stations in 1984 (the same year that he apparently supplied cash to fund Brian Crozier on a supposed fact-finding mission in Europe). In 1985, Mr Murdoch became a naturalised US citizen in order to meet a regulatory requirement that TV stations […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 John Medhurst Winchester: Zero Books, 2014, £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] 76 A Hellfire missile costs upwards of $100,000. 77 A partial biography is at . 27 bases.74 Teacher began this in an essay in Lobster 17 (’Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith’) and he just kept pursuing it, expanding it. This (final?) version is 564 pages, including 603 endnotes, bibliography and appendices. […]