Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] five years and they did blog intermittently during that time52 but there has been no formal announcement saying, ‘Our conclusions are . . . .’. 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] of Commons. It only remained that the document should – in some way – be ‘officially’ approved or accepted by Parliament. O’Donnell sent it to Dr Tony Wright MP, the chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, who declined to consider it.10 It was then sent to Sir Alan Beith MP, chair […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] at least part of the time searching for the heavyweight figure who would lead Britain out of its ‘crisis’ (only to come up with Lord Mountbatten). Peter Wright claimed in Spycatcher that King was one of the MI5’s agents. Which means what? King had a controller, a case-officer? Or merely that King chatted to […]