Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] (‘Good Queen Bess’ according to the mainstream media of the day). It turns she was not only an instigator of the burning of witches. She deployed state-backed espionage and torture, including the use of paid informers and the interception of mail. She also murdered her sister and encouraged state piracy, plundering and the licensing […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the Swedish government would promise – which it is in their power to do – that he wouldn’t be extradited from there to the USA on Wikileaksassociated espionage charges. Extradition laws in the past have always contained provisions against ‘re-extradition’, for an obvious reason: to prevent governments from seeking extradition on spurious grounds. It […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Middle East. He noted in July 2016: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ Then in the 2017 Al Jazeera film series 9 Israeli ‘diplomat’ Shai Masot is shown seeking to organise […]