Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] to believe happened.’ ‘I was suddenly accused of issuing visas in return for sex, stealing money from the post account, of being an alcoholic, of driving an embassy vehicle down a flight of stairs, which is extraordinary because I can’t drive. I’ve never driven in my life. I don’t have a driving license. My […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] introduction to the Israelis by his law chambers colleague and president of the Board of Deputies Eldred Tabachnik. Nor is it still widely known that the Israeli embassy introduced Blair to Levy, who then opened the till that freed his tennis pal from party obligations. Much of what happened under the Blair premiership remains […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Research Department (IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, usually labour 6 See for an account by former Special Branch officers of recruiting informants among the NUM and for an account of Special Branch’s […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Sorene ‘will lead BICOM after 15 years in senior positions at the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department of Health….Previously head of public affairs at the Israeli embassy in London, Mr Sorene has experience of working on Middle East issues.’40 Perhaps it’s not too surprising that Baroness Tonge resigned the LibDem whip after speaking […]