Area 51: An uncensored history of America’s top secret military base by Annie Jacobsen

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Orion: 2011, £20, h/b Built round interviews with participants, journalist Jacobson has written an account – not quite a history, really – of the U2 and Blackbird surveillance planes, and their significant role in the Cold War. There are lots of interesting snippets in here, she writes well and this is worth the time […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Irish archives.12 What Stalker established in the cases he examined was that those targeted by the RUC SB, and paramilitaries operating on their behalf, were often under surveillance for lengthy periods prior to being killed. It was known that they were unarmed. It was also the case that not all of them were IRA […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trust, which had Victor Lownes, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy gopher, in tow as ‘tantric adviser’. Beresford later believed that Hollingshead was responsible for his being placed under government surveillance; by the time he did, though, Hollingshead had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Tory Party’s biggest financial donors. See . 46 and imprison him.47 An article on The Intercept 4 8 listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler of Brockwell, member […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

Book reviews

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[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]

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