Lobster Issue 43: Contents

Pieces without an author are by the editor.

Parish Notices

Thanks to Jane Affleck, Richard Alexander, John Burnes, Phil Chamberlain, Terry Hanstock, Robert Henderson, Paul Lashmar, Philip Murphy, Rom, David Turner, Peter Watson and Robin Whittaker for information.

This issue of Lobster would have appeared a week or so earlier than it did had it not been for a computer virus which arrived on John Burnes’ computer, making his article inaccessible for a week. This is the 7th or 8th virus to have afflicted Burnes’ computer in the past year or so – he’s had to scrap one computer made unusable by one — and, by a strange coincidence, they started arriving just after he signed a contract to write a book about MI5. Add this to Malcolm Kennedy’s problems described in previous issues and again in Jane Affleck’s pieces here, and the attempt to smear Robert Henderson, described in this issue, and a pretty ugly picture of petty harassment by state employees to those who dare to question them begins to emerge. No, we aren’t being carted off in the night and being ‘disappeared’ but still… As for the system created for citizens to complain about their treatment, Jane Affleck’s detailed account of the system now in place shows that it is likely to be as useless as its predecessor.

Robin Ramsay

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