Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 40 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . 41 42 14 Cold War 3 The new Cold War is now established. And just as in […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] strict. But in Britain the situation was different. Every type of military equipment could be exported provided it had a governmentapproved ‘end user certificate’ supplied by the MoD. The British were ordered to get round the UN and Parliamentary ban by supplying false ‘end user certificates’. These were drawn up by Mr James Taylor, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] As often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]

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[…] and notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.43 And there’s the money being poured – literally […]

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[…] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.24 And there’s the money being poured – literally […]

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