Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] away from, choosing not to know? What will our grandchildren accuse us of? This range of editorial concerns led us to make After Dark programmes on sex, drugs, rock-and-roll and everything from the fashion industry to the Grand National, child abuse, psychics and animal rights (and, yes, one on male violence with Oliver Reed). […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] John Mulholland, was hired to ‘teach intelligence operatives how to use the tools of the magician’s trade – sleight of hand and misdirection – to covertly administer drugs, chemicals and biological agents to unsuspecting victims’ as part of Project MKULTRA.(19) Privates on the payroll The increasing use of PMSCs (private military or security companies) […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
9/11: The new evidence Ian Henshall London: Robinson, 2007, p/b, £9.99 This is a sequel to, an updating of, Henshall’s book (co-written with Rowland Morgan) 9:11 Revealed, reviewed in Lobster 50 (p. 29). Some new bits and pieces are chewed over, some new evidence is presented, some familiar material is reworked. It is done … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to ‘interpret’ Frost and Nixon but who … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and terrorism. … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] (pp. 26/7, 92-4). There was resistance from other factions and from Conservative central office which really didn’t want to have its youth wing advocating the legalisation of drugs, for example, and risking the creation of a ‘loony right’ to balance the ‘loony left’ of the Labour Party which the central office and its supportive […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the … Read more