The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] has been known for a couple of years. Much the same information was included in chapter 10 of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.35 Daily Mail blogging: it’s a lonely place In the latest instalment of his ‘View from the Bridge’, Robin Ramsay mentions Peter […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] government by militant left-wing groups. (p. 110) Which is what Peter Sanderson was describing in the piece I wrote in Lobster 81, ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’.11 ‘Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.29 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

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