First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 53-65 GCHQ -65 FO -67 ST. HELENA, SINGAPORE, DARWIN, ADDIS ABABA, MOSCOW -80 GRADE 9 FCO -82 VICE-CONSUL ISTANBUL -84 FCO -85 GRADE 8 HAVANA CARRUTHERS, OLIVER CAMERON IRD 50’s COLONIAL OFFICE. JOURNALIST -66 CHAIRMAN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT -73 DIRECTOR GEMINI NEWS SERVICE -78 EDITOR, AFRICA GAZETTE: CONNECTED WITH AFRICA CONFIDENTIAL CAWTHORN, MAJOR-GEN. SIR WALTER […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] TRIAL OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS NUREMBERG 1949 STAFF ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (RIIA) 1955-70 MEMBER OF COUNCIL RIIA 1961-71 MEMBER OF COUNCIL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES CAMERON, IAN INTELLIGENCE CONTROLLER N IRELAND 1976 ULSTERISATION COMMITTEE CAMPBELL, ANGUS MI6 (W) 1932 HON ATTACHE OSLO 1934 ATHENS 1935 RESIGNED 1938 RE-EMPLOYED ATHENS HEAD OF STATION […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] St Antony’s alumnus who is a columnist on The Washington Post and a member of its board. Applebaum’s husband, an old Oxford friend of Johnson and David Cameron from Bullingdon Club days, is Radek Sikorski, a former employee of Rupert Murdoch in Eastern Europe and of the American Enterprise Institute. Sikorski is now leading […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] to ask but, as psychotherapists will tell you, recognising the problem is necessary before a solution is available…..and it does raise specific questions as to whether David Cameron will do for politics what Margaret Thatcher did for economics, or whether he will simply try to work the system he has inherited a little better. […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] Philip Gould’s principal New Labour associate in the hocus-pocus world of ‘qualitative’ research. Remember that OLR is owned by the highly influential Lord Bell, and that David Cameron is likely to find focus group ‘research’ just as handy in bypassing his activists as did Lord Kinnock and Tony Blair. The gong show It will […]

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Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation
 Andrew Rosthorn Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked on computer in Dordogne Social scientists studying mass-media fantasies known as ‘moral panics’ have reported on an archive of internet traffic that reveals the social media origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal. This revelation was in the International Journal of Sociology […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Sir Anthony Hart and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.’ 1 1 Copy of letter supplied to author. 1 On 18 June 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Tam Dalyell essentially confirming what Theresa May had said: ‘As you will be aware, this Government has already promised “the fullest possible degree of […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] an important document, the indication is that it came from somewhere other than the National Archives and The Times has obfuscated its true origin for reasons unknown. Cameron, Johnson and SIS I’ve never quite known what to make of David Cameron’s claim that he was ‘groomed’ by the KGB during the mid-1980s. When he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is in what may be terminal decline: membership has fallen from 253,000 to 140,00 since Cameron was chosen; 290 of the Party’s 650 associations have fewer than 100 members;16 and the average age of the members is over 60 and may be […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Kuenssberg on the same day that the first report on the Lex Greensill affair became available on-line. Greensill was the fringe banker who hired former PM David Cameron – at around £29,000 a day – as a ‘consultant’.1 Cameron duly tried to earn his corn by ringing/texting his former colleagues who were in the […]

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