Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more

When David met Stella

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the following exchange took place.   Turner (presenting book for signing after queuing briefly behind several people, including a woman wearing an Anarchist badge) ‘Hello. Do you mind a lengthy inscription?’ Rimington (smiling, flanked by several suited goons and book shop staff) ‘That depends what it is. If it’s a long one, I’ll put […]

The Neave letters

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]

The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] after Suez is a good time for Britons to reflect on empire. Our military is again deployed in regions of the world more associated in the national mind with the 19th century than the 21st, while the children of the poorer regions of Britain are still losing their lives defending the overseas interests on […]

Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, […]

Cyberculture: Counterconspiracy

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] photographs. All the usual suspects are here: Bracken, Keith, Thomas, Constantine, Martin – and a lot of names unfamiliar to me. Material ranges from Jack Kerouac to mind control and the quality ranges from the poor (though there isn’t much of that) to the seriously good. To give a flavour of all this, the […]

Beyond The Da Vinci Code

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] bought his way into the Western intelligence fraternity by handing over extensive files on anti-Soviet intelligence networks behind enemy lines in 1945/6. (1) What brought Gehlen to mind was a mischievous little article in a recent edition of the French newsletter Intelligence Online (2) reminding us that the new Pope Benedict XVI was formerly […]

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] constitution concerning the suspension of Anderson, while such a reading is possible, common sense (and ‘natural justice’) say that Griffin was in the wrong.(17) He did not mind this, for he knew that if matters did come to court, provided the ‘political soldiers’ retained the Directorate majority they had only just acquired, the legal […]

Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] the neo-conservative right, to establish a new balance of terror. No third party should offer unqualified support to someone who has not yet made up their own mind about what is right and proper. Second, our security and intelligence community ceased to question their premises and became locked into an Atlanticist group-think about the […]

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