The Euro: The Battle for British Hearts and Minds

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing for euro membership’. This preparation has included two ‘low intensity’ propaganda campaigns, substantial state expenditure already and decisions that ensure that in the referendum campaign the ‘Yes’ campaign can outspend their opponents, and that the EU itself […]

Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] justice’, with its procedures loaded against the defendant and the verdict predetermined. Laughland thinks Milosevich has been misrepresented by the Western media (which was conned by NATO propaganda) and outlines a serious case for this here. Running parallel to his account of the trial is a critique of the ICTY and its legal basis. […]

MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] what is known as a ‘personal chair’ at Cambridge University, wrote KGB:The Inside Story (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990). The book is part of the British secret state’s propaganda campaign around the KGB defector Oleg Gordiefsky. Gordiefsky’s public role, the quid pro quo for the pension he is now receiving, is to bolster the key […]

The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] currency, fearing another ERM-style debacle. (2) ‘New Labour’ is stuck in precisely the same way that the Conservative Party was stuck and it is entirely unclear whether or not a pro-single currency propaganda campaign like those described in Andy Mullen’s piece above would work with so much of the printed media being hostile to it.

Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] control of its borders, a large (but unknown) number of Jihadist Muslim refugees set up shop in the UK – mostly in London – and began agitation, propaganda and training for Jihad against the decadent West.(12) I don’t think there is much doubt that something like this has happened, though the numbers remain unclear […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories’ covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the clandestine history of this country whose significance can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears […]

Bacardi — The Hidden War

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] many Cuban exiles. Throughout the period following Castro’s seizure of power, there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and […]

The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] well as torture. Generally they have focussed on policy rather than operational details. Occasionally a committee will get tired of been used as a conduit for government propaganda and will assert its independence. The Foreign Affairs Committee has focused on the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War on Terrorism and this has led to […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] PRA with the left. But by using the same methods of collecting information — garbage surveillance, infiltration of target groups, and the use of guilt-by-association in their propaganda — each of these three groups has perverted itself with clandestinism and denunciation for its own sake. This opinion of mine is based on statements from […]

Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Mary Whitehouse case against the film ‘Scum’, which now obliges the IBA to vet potentially controversial programmes. Objections came from the Oman Government via Sultan of Oman’s propaganda adviser, Anthony Ashworth, ex IRD. Observer 29 July. See also Observer 26 June for events leading up to this. More police raids on bookshops reported in […]

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