The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: The economic crisis continues Robin Ramsay The bottom line (of the bottom line) At the end of December 2010 Her Majesty’s Treasury put out a document which stated: ‘…net debt excluding the temporary effects of financial interventions was £889.1 billion, equivalent to 59.3 per cent of gross domestic product (£2322.7 billion, equivalent to 154.9% including […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? * new * It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in the US, Kajsa Norman: 16 or <http://uk.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embedmicrochips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5?r=US&IR=T 17 See, for example, from 2007 Todd Lewan’s […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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 […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘Britain could supply the expertise of the City of London banking sector to drive reforms and attract private capital to financing the clean energy transition.’15 Bearing in mind Mark Lowcock’s remarks above, how likely is it that the UK government will be able to deliver a good or even decent job at turning vastly […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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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