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
[…] own interest and that of his office, as well as in the general interest of the Lobby. It is a responsibility which should always be kept in mind. There is no ‘association’ of Lobby journalists, but in our common interests we act collectively as the Parliamentary Lobby Journalists. It has been found convenient to […]
Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]
1. Getting closer… Despite the recent publicity about Bill Clinton, the impact made on him by Carroll Quigley, and the Rhodes Scholars’ network (see Lobster 27 p. 19, for examples), the academic world remains almost wholly unaware of Quigley’s work. In their essay ‘The Limits of Influence: foreign policy think tanks in Britain and the … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] in the Western world and the repudiation of all totalitarian challenges.’ Josselson was in touch with Lasky and this plan combined well with what Lasky had in mind. Again there was a delay, Wisner not giving the go-ahead until 7th April, with a budget of $50,000 allocated.(47) Arthur Schlesinger, the liberal historian and friend […]
[…] The two pieces are a reworking of some of the information we have on that fuzzy, hearsay-laden area in which drugs (especially psychedelics), the intelligence agencies and mind control programmes overlapped. In the second part the author, Greg Krupey, reminds us of the claims made by Timothy Leary in his memoir Flashbacks that Mary […]
[…] increase The price increase from £2.50 to £3.00 is unavoidable: at £2.50 Lobster had ceased to pay for itself, mainly due to rising printing costs. I don’t mind producing it for nothing but I can’t afford to subsidise it: got nothing to subsidise it with. In 1986 Lobster went up to £2.00 a copy. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] one hand, the CIA has already used involuntary experimental subjects in other programs it funded in the 1950s and 60s. Anyone who has read Walter Bowart’s Operation Mind Control and believed only a quarter of it would not find Girard’s claims about the way the CIA is behaving difficult to believe. The CIA has […]
