Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Charlie Bubbles One of Lobster’s contributors had dinner a few years ago with Charlie Falconer, the current Lord Chancellor, and reported that he was a fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to … Read more
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] convince the NCCL not to refuse legal aid to NF members, or alternatively to demonstrate that the NCCL is… a political front for the left.’ (61) The vote at the AGM did go against them, but the NF were happy in that it ‘stirred up a right little hornet’s nest and got lots of […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] openly influential. AIPAC and its allies allocate campaign funding for candidates at all levels of public office, provided that they support Israeli policies. They mobilise the Jewish vote to swing close elections and in a country where most US citizens know little to nothing about either Israel or the Middle East, they (successfully) put […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] benefit in the campaign for the presidency. Oliver North, who had worked with Secord and the CIA in Laos, worked with him again on the Saudi AWACS vote and was quickly moved to the National Security Council in August 1981 after only a year at the Naval War College (Wall Street Journal, 12/12/86, p.54; […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
The Westminster Whistleblowers: Shirley Porter, homes for votes and twenty years of scandal in Britain’s rottenest borough Paul Dimoldenberg London: Politicos, 2006, £12.99, p/b The author was a Labour councillor in Westminster during Porter’s ‘reign of terror’ and was instrumental in eventually bringing her down. With an insider’s view he has written an immensely … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] in large areas of our cities now resembling their US counterparts….depressed, low grade, deregulated and populated by a permanent underclass who no longer matter – they don’t vote, (or aren’t registered to vote), don’t work, have no qualifications and live in a criminal twilight. Failing to run public transport as an organised, planned and […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] hospitality of The Observer extended by his old Oxford pal, editor Roger Alton, to proclaim the virtues of Nicolas Sarkozy and confide, a week before the second vote, that his success in the French presidential election was greatly desired in Downing Street. The prospect of a European constitution by the referendum-less back door was […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) has been in the forefront of encouraging further EU integration for over twenty years. However, many Eurorealists appear unaware of the ERT. Intended to increase awareness, this article will merely sketch the ERT and its activities. Making no claims to originality, ([1]) the article briefly examines the ERT’s … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
CIA: read all about it The most striking intelligence story since the last issue was Tim Spicer’s ‘CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US’.(1) It included this: ‘A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of ten CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the … Read more
