‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] by Russian submarines. The function of the on-shore Ireland was represented in the talks by Joseph Walshe (Secretary of External Affairs) and Colonel Lionel Archer (Irish Military Intelligence) and the UK by Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke. 25 See a report setting out Ireland’s assistance to the UK, by Viscount Cranborne, Secretary of State for […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] later I received a reply (on 1 See . plain A4 paper, signed with a wiggly line with no name beneath it) informing me that the Secret Intelligence Service has not disposed of human remains in the last 15 years. Encouraged, I wrote again, this time asking for the release of the Service’s internal […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] them’. And then there is his relationship with Vladimir Putin, a relationship that is ‘so obsequious that former CIA director John Brennan and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that Trump might have been compromised by the Kremlin’ (p. 145). As he points out in his discussion of the ‘Collusion’ issue, the […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] successor, Sir Keir Starmer. Not only does he have an employee of the Israel lobby, Luke Akehurst, on the party’s National Executive Committee, he has former Israeli intelligence officer, Assaf Kaplan, on his social media team.23 The subsequent expulsion from Labour of Jewish members who do not support Israel has been a regular but […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] took his complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, to hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It is also the only appropriate Tribunal for the purpose of certain proceedings under s7(1)(a) of the Human Rights […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] an initial print run of 150. Its early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a […]

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