Secret State, Silent Press: new militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] or, ideally, a combination of both. (It is interesting to note that before transforming Saddam into a ‘bad guy’, the same media had favourably compared him to Thatcher during the 1980s when he was privatising Iraq’s economy. ) At the same time the collapse of Communism had the Western elites searching around for a […]

A short history of Lobster

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[…] Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace. A few months later I wrote the first attempt to explain Wallace’s claims in Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’. This was 50 A4 pages, with an introduction by my MP, the late Kevin McNamara. He was a Catholic of Irish extraction, had knowledge of events […]

The secret of the 1917 ‘Balfour declaration’

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] for fourth and fifth men working for Moscow, and away from those now working, in effect, for Washington. By 1979, Andrew Boyle’s The Climate of Treason presented Thatcher with a gift by blowing Anthony Blunt’s cover, and heaping further obloquy on Keynes’ former alma mater. When the ‘Empire’ was finally wound up in the […]

Kincoragate – Loose Ends

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] as being a ‘link with the foreign office’, he was trusted by the Foreign Office mandarins even more than security overlord Sir Maurice Oldfield, appointed by Mrs Thatcher in 1979. The appointment in 1980 of Sir Brooks Richard, an ex-diplomat, as Security Co-ordinator in Northern Ireland, was seen as giving the Foreign Office ‘game […]

Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] ’75 he was living in Switzerland and listed his occupation as ‘tax exile’. His current address is Tonbridge, Kent (he stopped being a ‘tax exile’ during the Thatcher years) and is ‘active in personal development and social change’. Currently a Senior Partner of Performance Consultants Ltd., he has written a number of books including […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] ten pages of it; and he later confirmed, to the Times Diary, that he had got the idea from MI5. Presumably it is this section that Mrs Thatcher finds so interesting. During the House of Commons debate on the Official Secrets Bill on 15 February 1989, Norman Buchan MP mocked the Prime Minister for […]

The meaning of the 2009 Budget

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] per cent of the UK GDP. It fell back from this level over the subsequent twenty years, but its share still remained over 30 per cent. The Thatcher years saw a much more rapid decline, as large parts of British industry closed down while the financial and service sectors expanded. This process slowed down, […]

The Lobster CD-Rom

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[…] from Amstrad PCW format to MS Word 4.0   Example of Amstrad PCW Formated file: Notes# +/ 1. The “New Right’ and those around Keith Joseph and Thatcher worked hard to portray the Lobster issues 26 onwards were produced in Macintosh Claris Works, and required converting to PC-formated files: Macintosh 3½-inch diskettes are read […]

Clippings: The Lie Detector Story

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] beyond normal 30 yrs. Remarks by Lord Donaldson, Ch’mn Advisory Council on Public Records in 24 th Annual Report of Public Records Office. (Guardian 1 July 1983.) Thatcher personally stops publication of two books: official histories of war-time MI5 and war-time counter intelligence operations. (Guardian 25 November and 8 December 1983) Anthony Lester QC […]

Fifth Column: A brief sojourn East of Suez: a last gasp for British great power status

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

The debate about whether the British should have a military presence East of Suez seemed to have been settled under the Wilson-Callaghan Government in the 1960s and 1970s. The process of withdrawal started with the independence of India and Pakistan (widely celebrated in the UK media recently on its sixtieth anniversary), was confirmed by the […]

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