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... was genuine. Never before had the six/nine/ten/twelve member-states failed to sign up to everything together. Indeed, Major's opt-outs were the template for the four subsequent Denmark-specific opt- outs that persuaded the Danes to vote 'Yes' a second time round). Two, the Danish 'No' spooked the currency markets, which smelled weakness in terms of ERM members' commitment to stick to the policies needed to stay within the currency grid. Given that the ERM was essentially a Deutchesmark bloc, the high German interest rates caused by the reunion with East Germany – which had stoked inflation – were transmitted, painfully, to the rest ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 20 Sep 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-classless-society.pdf
... American Establishment' plot to lead them 'by the nose' into both wars.) The co-operation worked pretty well, during the Second World War in particular, until the Ivy Leaguers began to 'lose their grip' in the 1960s, in line with broad US demographic trends (WASPs down, Hispanics up), while the British spooks remained, on the whole, 'Old Boys'. It was then that the so- called 'special' Anglo-American intelligence relationship started hitting the rocks – and not only because of 'class'. The British Empire was one bone of contention, though less so in the 1950s and 1960s, when America thought it made a useful ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 20 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-spies-we-trust.pdf
... own investigations as the members may decide. Where the security services are unwilling to disclose documents on grounds of national security, the committee would then have a right to ask the Information Commissioner to review the relevant documents and decide whether or not their disclosure would genuinely put national security at risk, as opposed to its being simply inconvenient to the spooks, and his decision would be final. ' Which is one solution; but not one which this prime minister or any foreseeable prime minister would accept, if only because a part of the prime minister's power resides in his or her unique access to the secret state; and, politics being about power, it is unlikely that a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 02 Jan 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
... But how did they get the bomb on the plane? Then some of the clothes in the bomb debris were identified as having been purchased in Malta and since the two Libyans were there at the right time, and a flight from Malta fed into the flight out of London – voilà! Case solved! She doesn't see direction by the spooks: she sees an investigation derailing itself. The Germans couldn't find a link between the plane and the PFLP – How did they get the bomb on the plane? – and the British were reluctant to to investigate Heathrow, 1 This book arrived the day that Exaro published material showing (again) that the US intelligence people didn't believe ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 11 Feb 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-lockerbie-book-review.pdf
... edition appeared in 2011, plus a new Foreword by Michael Mansfield QC and colour illustrations. You can get one from Waterstones, or Amazon UK.....Since the new UK edition appeared last August, almost every box of stock couriered down here in four separate deliveries over several months has been cut open. We suspect the spooks are desperate to stop someone sending us sensitive documents. The courier companies in UK and here, and Christchurch police are dumbfounded. Also, nearly every complimentary copy posted to reviewers never arrived; so, apart from my op- ed in the Mail on Sunday – see www.hildamurrell.org under 'News/Reviews' – there ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Illinois, has his campaign derailed by a sex scandal. With nowhere else to go Zajac stumbles into a real issue – housing foreclosures – and accidentally finds a way to revive his dying campaign. The Liberal Democrats, facing big losses at the next general election because of their association with the Conservative Party, are having a Zajac moment. Spooks, now and then C ryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their 10 <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/06/vince-cable- tory-budget-taxes-lie> 11 <http://www. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 18 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... groups and CIA contract agents – many of them familiar to students of the assassination – as being in Dallas that day. Mackenzie's story is probably partly a fabrication. He says somewhere that originally his memoir was going to be chiefly about his life in circuses and – like Chauncey Holt – as a printer of documents for the Mob and the spooks.18 He then found an old notebook from the sixties and decided to add material from that. Well, maybe. If most of the post 21 November 1963 material is a fake, I cannot see the point of it. Mackenzie isn't selling anything – there's no book or DVD attached to his tale; and I can think ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 29 Jan 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-chauncey-holt.pdf
... He claimed that the child porn (which was found when his house was searched after his arrest for the bomb hoax) was planted by British intelligence in order to discredit him. Given that exactly that scenario had formed the plot of an episode of ITV drama Judge John Deed, broadcast in 2004, one has to wonder exactly why the spooks would see any need to bother to discredit him at all. Set in stone Did you observe two minutes' silence at 11 am on 11 November? If so, you were hoodwinked by one of the most successful lies in British history. Like many others erected around the same time, my local war memorial (Kingston Upon Thames ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 27 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-holding-pattern.pdf
... there is a left- wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or the vice captain, and if not, he is the referee and he can send any man off the field and call our man on at any time he likes. ' Winter's comment was the only piece of the programme which the spooks insisted be cut before transmission.12 How seriously should we take this claim attributed to MI5? Is it possible that they had this degree of penetration of the entire British Marxist left? Penetration, yes; but the implied control, I doubt. Reining in the bankers A brief flip back through this country's recent economic history – from ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... and wider left seemed politically relevant. My interest in MI5 was in MI5 qua enemy of the left. But as the wider left disintegrated in the UK after the fall of the Soviet bloc, and the British secret state more or less gave up surveilling, penetrating and manipulating it, the political point of trying to find out what the spooks were doing diminished. In 1986 when Lobster 11 appeared, detailing some of the anti-Labour activities of the 1970s, many of the people involved were still alive, as were the consequences of those operations. Now such research is just history. It's still interesting but not as interesting. Secondly, the shift to economic politics isn't ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-parish-notes.pdf
