Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] the nether regions. The fact that the Intelligence and Security Committee of the House of Commons has never taken written or oral statements from Shayler or Richard Tomlinson, the most important insider sources on our spooks in the post-war period, shows precisely how little independence the committee actually has. (2) As it was in […]

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Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] about so-called ‘secret’ archives and spy expulsions. ‘Many in Britain sympathise with MI6’ we are told, ‘saying that they have no option but to try and silence Tomlinson……’ Oh yeah? Who are these many? In what poll? What was the question? Stumbling on, this EYE avows that ‘Animal Activists Aim to Kill!’ and ‘Managing […]

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Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the money found on his body (P199 et seq). Notes Online (PDF format) at Full text reproduced at Despite the general rubbishing of former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson and his allegations about an SIS proposal to assassinate Milosevich, the SIS officer he named did indeed recall that he had proposed the assassination of an […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] look into would come a long way down the list of topics chosen by readers of this journal. ISC has not spoken to David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, for example; nor Tony Holland, Richard Symonds and Michael Smith (who writes is this issue), who have recently begun working together;(1) nor John Burnes; (2) nor […]

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An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some of whom, following their regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of The Big […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge the Met’s falsehoods’ and so on […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge the Met’s falsehoods’ and so on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] “expectations”, and ignored compelling recent empirical evidence about how disruptive to the economy such policy lurches could be because of their effects on the exchange rate.’ Jim Tomlinson, ‘Mrs Thatcher’s Macroeconomic Adventurism, 1979–1981, and its Political Consequences’ in British Politics, 2007, 2, (3–19) . 33 34 35 or 36 11 Michael Ledeen denied any […]

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[…] “expectations”, and ignored compelling recent empirical evidence about how disruptive to the economy such policy lurches could be because of their effects on the exchange rate.’ Jim Tomlinson, ‘Mrs Thatcher’s Macroeconomic Adventurism, 1979–1981, and its Political Consequences’ in British Politics, 2007, 2, (3–19) . 7 3 
 Four people identifying him means we have […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that ‘Saddam’s claim to possess WMD was a bluff . . . he had lied to Hugh Tomlinson, ‘Bin Laden? Never trust a man with a beard like that, Saddam Hussein told FBI’, The Times, 15 March 2023. 33 Christian Oliver, ‘Saddam Hussein said […]

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