Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 25 One attempted […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] before ‘Robert’ fesses up and admits he’d lied and was the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

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[…] of war), the length and verbosity of the various US enquiries set up to determine culpability for being ‘unprepared’ at Pearl Harbour, suggest a widespread frame of mind that takes as its starting point that America is entitled to regard itself as invulnerable.1 This conclusion is strengthened by the author neglecting to discuss the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] review was reposted at Aaronovitch Watch at . put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at or . 23 One attempted […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Here, for example, is his memo to general secretary Larry Whitty dated 19 September 1986: ‘If you are able to see John Booth today please bear in mind the following: 1) NUJ Chapel is meeting this morning and we need to see the outcome of that meeting first; 2) John has briefed a reporter […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] before ‘Robert’ fesses up and admits he’d lied and was the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life… .” ‘Clegg….had already changed his mind about the deficit reduction plans. He was concerned about the firestorm engulfing Greece, and worried that it would spread across Europe, as Spain appeared vulnerable ….he […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] big decisions’ at or . 2 Labour was defeated in the 1992 election, the party was repositioned under these guidelines. A ‘thorough examination of the state of mind of Britain’s voters’ was commissioned by Mandelson. The report ‘Labour and Britain in the 1990s’ was stage one: the second was a policy review learning the […]

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