Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings Here is another, previously unpublished section from Wallace’s 1974 jottings for the aborted operation ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Can Politicians Be Trusted? N. St. Stevas: homosexual – boyfriend of Elton John’s manager – cocaine user at parties Homosexual relationships – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van […]

The Angry Brigade: A history of Britain’s first urban guerilla group

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] to make the case seem stronger. Barker tells us he was a guilty man framed. Did the AB have any effect? Not really: the arrival of the IRA with real bombs, not spectaculars, shunted the AB off into a historical siding. Barker and Christie do their best to find something of value in their […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]

Lobster 11

Lobster Issue

[…] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia – and World Feature Services. 16 17 Guardian 27 January 1978. IRD set up a “counter subversion unit” to deal with the IRA. It published a manual on the IRA distributed to journalists and others, including ISC’s Iain Hamilton. (Guardian 27 January 1978) Sections of the manual appeared in […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] members of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland.21 Now […]

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