The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] conference session ended. For as we know now the Kinnock team had already decided to capitulate and ‘Thatcherise’ the 13 Or England and Wales, if the Scots vote for independence in the September referendum. Its ‘mission statement’ includes this: ‘Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of the two versions of the complete document I found online this version is the more clearly laid out.) January 2011 Dear Reader: Would it affect your vote if you learned that the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper was a CSIS operative in the late 1980s and early 1990s? This interesting-but-not-scandalous information (as once described […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] ‘Remainer’ and ‘Brexiteer’. Norton-Taylor’s preferences slot predictably onto both axes. Apropos of not much, the book is shot through with barbs about the foolishness of the Brexit vote. Norton-Taylor’s principle arguments for the EU – support for the European Arrest Warrant and greater sharing of data – look to be at variance with his […]

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