Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] could have been compromised. “We all know what 9/11 meant to the country, and his treating those records in such a manner will always leave, in my mind, a cloud over whether or not the 9/11 Commission got full production of the records that they requested, and that to me is extremely serious and […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] assembled on his premiership records a fall from grace summed up by its title. ‘The demure public image was the front of a woman with a steely mind who was fiercely protective of her husband and family. She formed a strong, and to some at No 10 surprising, alliance with Damian McBride and Charlie […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] fact that Roger Windsor was eventually paid a total of £80,000 by the Mirror does not seem to have raised a doubt about his veracity in Greenslade’s mind.) Here we have a recognisable and quite elaborate disinformation operation. But by whom? We don’t know. Most suspect MI5. Stella Rimington was asked about Roger Windsor […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] credentials. (p. 127) Trump, of course, did not attend the classes. There is much more of interest in Keddie’s book. Some minor points inevitably stick in the mind. For example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] matters arising will have been of interest to those recently recruited or considering working with SIS, whether as staff or agent: criminal collusion tends to concentrate the mind. Particularly traumatised will be some individuals of other authoritarian nations, seeking the overthrow of their leaders and sharing information with SIS in the belief they have […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] behaviour – if that is possible. So far at least, Trump does not seem to have identified Pence as a possible threat. He might well change his mind if someone tells him about this book (he’s hardly going to read it himself). If he does come to see Pence as a potential rival, then […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] When I look around the Commons, I see dozens of people who have made a lasting difference for good’. Even those MPs whose political ideas ‘may to mind be completely round the twist, unfeeling and cruel’ nevertheless did not start out ‘misguided, let alone evil’. (pp. 14-15). This seems to be taking Christian charity […]

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