Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Not so here, though various individuals are identified as the narrative proceeds. These are ultra-rich preppers – people who have considered climate change, population growth and Artificial Intelligence, and the consequences these – especially the last – may have for human existence on the planet. They also possess, in Rushkoff’s words, ‘the Mindset’. Namely, […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to take any photographs.2 9 Additionally, Erinys was tangentially involved with exKGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium in November 2006. Litvinenko was producing ‘business intelligence’ reports into high profile Russian figures for Titon International, which was a subsidiary of Erinys.3 0 27 See footnote 3. 28 See . 29 For the […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] that when a man has taken as many steps as possible to be identified as a woman, they are a woman. The famous Turing Test for artificial intelligence is probably the modern era’s best-known Nominalist concept. It isn’t concerned with whether a machine is really conscious and self-aware, only with whether it makes sense […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of this, it would seem, was to herald a gentler, more feminine touch to […]

Spookaroonie!

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Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] lines later there is the following quotation. ‘Brutally summarised……Mrs Thatcher and Thatcherism grew out of a right-wing network in this country with extensive links to the military- intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] emerges here is a pattern of one-time visits by persons considered to be close to President Trump. Both Nigel Farage and Dana Rohrabacher might be considered, in intelligence terms, as ‘floaters’ – assets The allegation of a longer term association betwixt Farage and Assange was made by Simpson in testimony before the U.S. House […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] concerned. Page 104 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 of his trips to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War Wilson did talk to someone who was a Soviet intelligence officer with some kind of cover – as a trade official, say. Perhaps Wilson had a few vodkas and talked about British politics. Our Soviet intelligence […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] project’s ‘ballooning’ costs which is due to report in winter 2024/25. The latest opportunity for consultants will be how will departments fare with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology which former PM Tony Blair has set great faith in solving no end of public sector challenges. With former Tory leader William Hague […]

Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order to gather intelligence on Iraq. The Public Interest Immunity certificates were signed by Kenneth Baker and Peter Lilley, relying on an assessment by the prosecuting council that the documents […]

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