Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] 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, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] protests of the 1960s and resolved ‘never again’. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist ‘fusion centres’ of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] pushing his Playing to the Edge. He expected that he was going to have to spend a lot of his time defending ‘Bush-era tactics that included electronic surveillance, metadata collection, renditions, detentions, interrogations, and targeted killings’, trying to convince his audience that after 9/11 ‘we had to play to the legal and ethical edge’. […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides are horrifying in their implications. One such example is the extensive surveillance MI5 imposed on the undeniably brilliant polymath Jacob Bronowski. It is alleged that Bronowski had to eventually emigrate to the U.S. to find any decent work […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and The Move and won.2 1 During the period between the appearance of the postcard and the subsequent legal denouement, Secunda and The Move found themselves under surveillance by the state (presumably Special Branch) who followed them on tour around the UK as they promoted ‘Flowers in the Rain’. Wilson’s lack of humour arose […]