From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Besly. 2 BISS was a microwave-based intruder-detection system. This was discussed in the Guardian in 1986, that article being reproduced at . See also Armen Victorian, The Mind Controllers (London: Vision, 2000) pp. 201-203. bleed, pressure in the forehead, temples and ears; earache; pain in the glands in the parotid region; swelling of tongue […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] his semen-smeared reputation? I won’t go over the whole issue again. I’m getting bored too, which is a shame, as I’m broadly on his side. To my mind the basic question is quite simple. Assange was perfectly willing to face trial either if he were questioned in the UK, which is a normal practice; […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] no actual evidence to support this, except the word of the FCO. Further more, I find it quite farcical that the Tribunal judgement additionally states: ‘bearing in mind the FCO’s expertise in the field, we are inclined to accept their position on section 27(1).’ So, if the FCO wish to withhold information, the FCO […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] dead four years later on a ridge 700 metres below the summit of Mount Snowdon. A coroner found that he died of exposure when his state of mind was affected by alcohol, sleeping pills and confusion due to his personal situation. Paul Atkinson has now revealed how nine months before the Burnt House Farm […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] martyrdom? Some insiders think so.’ 17 Powers widened the scope of this: ‘. . . behind these suspicions, never resolved, lay a still darker fear in the mind of Robert Kennedy: that he himself, if any of the four had been established as the guilty party, could not have escaped at least some measure […]

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