Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
The journal, The Round Table, originally the public face of the secret Round Table network, has reappeared after folding in the late 1970s. It’s new editorial board includes MPs Donald Anderson, Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and Alexander […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
It has been claimed (in Sunday News 20th Feb. and The Phoenix, 19th Feb.1983) that at the heart of the disclosures over the Kincora scandal is an internal row in the intelligence services. A dissident faction is thought to have formed in the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] do not document any contact between the Weathermen and the Brotherhood, let alone Stark. As it stands the assertion is worthless, in other words. Friends, Frendz, the IRA, Howard Marks and… In Britain, according to Black, Stark’s crucial contact was with ‘the ex-Situationist Friends magazine’: a nexus of psychedelia, political radicalism and armed struggle. […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] quotes Steele as saying to the Provo leaders at the talks: ‘I hope you’re not going to start your bloody stupid campaign of violence again. If the IRA really wanted a united Ireland, it was wasting its time shooting British soldiers and bombing Northern Ireland into an industrial and social slum,’ he said. ‘It […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] Tory Prime Minister, recruited Howard Marks, his old chum from Balliol College, Oxford, to spy on Jim McCann, a hash smuggler whom MI6 believed was a Provisional IRA contact in Amsterdam. Macmillan gave no indication that he knew Marks was already doing business with McCann, or that he knew Marks’ name and address had […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Blake Publishing, London 1995, £15.99 The pseudonymous author claims to have been a member of a clandestine 4-man SAS squad which assassinated a couple of dozen alleged IRA members in the 1971-3 period in Northern Ireland. The author’s taped and transcribed memories are intercut with sections from an uncredited ghost writer – apparently Nick […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] without destroying the Provos. Larkin believes that a decision was made by the British state in the mid-1980s to train, arm and direct loyalist para-militaries against the IRA. The one piece missing from his analysis is evidence of the political dimension. Did the Conservative government approve of this? Did they know of this? Larkin […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] perception is that of a community that has systematically lost out, while Republicans hijack the Good Friday Agreement to their own ends. Nor, in contrast to the IRA, have Loyalists duped a section of the left into seeing them as freedom fighters. Historically, even bourgeois and mainstream unionists have been quite inept at handling […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] certain distance from the leadership. Brady has said this label was his idea, the lesson having been drawn from Northern Ireland that what was once the Provisional IRA is now the IRA proper, and the ‘Official IRA’ is nowhere.(37) A long hot summer That there was no let-up in the internal conflict was in […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] think what you have to communicate is so important or so secret, it shouldn’t be sent by letter at all. An oldie but a goodie After the IRA shot dead a British soldier with a single shot, Independent Television News on Saturday July 17 commented that there was ‘speculation that the IRA had trained […]
