My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] a liberal and believed that liberalism – belief in freedom, rights, democracy, equality of women – was essentially a European idea, linked to a ‘European structure of mind’ and protected by a homogeneous community which was threatened by immigration. GKY’s aims But who was he trying to impress? The ‘correspondents’ themselves, the party leaders […]

Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters – something like 100,000 words – there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What … Read more

Lobster Issue 49: Contents

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Pieces without an author’s name are by the editor Writers in this issue Jane Affleck is a regular contributor to Lobster. Garrick Alder is a journalist. Richard Alexander is a long-time Lobster reader and contributor. His website is <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/blackchip/> Roger Cottrell is a novelist, script writer and PhD student. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. … Read more

Re:

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record (<http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord>) is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of … Read more

Secrecy and Power in the British State: A History of the Official Secrets Act

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] that an effective analysis of the use of power “should refrain from posing the labyrinthine and unanswerable question who then has power and what has he in mind?” Instead, it is a case of studying power at the point where its intention, if it has one, is completely investigated in its real and effective […]

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda master mind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government on behalf of the United Fruit Company (who were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays […]

Errors, corrections, apologies

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] posing outside a synagogue.’ And so forth. (No wonder I got muddled….) In Lobster 25, (p. 11) I stated that some of the material for Julianne McKinney’s mind control report had come from Harlan Girard. Ms McKinney denies this. Harlan Girard says it’s true. I can’t tell which of them is telling the truth […]

The Road to 9/11

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America Peter Dale Scott London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, prices in the UK from £16.95   The first third of this book, 120 pages or so, is part parapolitical and part deep history of America from Nixon to Ronald Reagan’s first election … Read more

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] ‘strong state’ Changes in Queen’s regulations re service personnel and political activities. New rules extend to include participation in ‘movements’. Guardian 8th March ‘ CND clearly in mind. Leaked Ministry of Defence document suggests establishing a register of civil servants’ political beliefs if they are thought to oppose the government. Times 16th May (Isn’t […]

Edward Heath made me angry

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] account. Christie knew a couple of the AB people slightly, his circle butted onto theirs at a couple of places, and you can imagine how the SB/MI5 mind viewed that. Just to make sure, they planted the detonators ‘found’ in his car. It appears, indeed, that, with the exception of Christie (who was acquitted) […]

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