Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. * new * The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] almost right, but LOBSTER is also intriguing. A good example is issue# 11 (April 1986, 55 pp.), which is devoted to ”Wilson, �5 and the Rise of Thatcher,” or, “covert operations in British politics 1974-78.” Despite the up-front political slant, it is a comprehensive account which should be included in 104 serious study of […]

Everybody now loves widgets!

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the first annual conference of EEF, the Engineering Employers Federation, now the clunkily self-styled ‘Manufacturers Organisation for UK Manufacturing’. 5 The text is at . subheading ‘Margaret Thatcher spoke enthusiastically about regional aid’ – in the Telegraph (24 November 2011). Green noted in his opening paragraph: ‘Despite the hype, the City (financial services and […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Navy as a whole. Stanley Bonnett died aged 60 in 1985, the year CND named him as an informer in the case they brought against the Thatcher government at the European Court of Human Rights.22 CND dropped the case in 1988. From Stanley’s possessions his daughter Joanna, 21, produced for his funeral the […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Merlyn Rees, is reported as being in the Information Policy Unit by unit member Michael Taylor. See . 5 6 Quoted in a letter to Mrs Thatcher from Colin Wallace in 1990. See the section headed ‘The smear about John Hume stealing charitable funds’. 7 Communist Party or National Liberation Front be admitted […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]

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