Stalker, Conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] of the bug was for fear that Stalker might discover that MI5 had also bugged the car in which McTerr, Toman and Burns were killed. According to BBC reporter Chris Moore, ‘the security forces involved in the covert surveillance operation were able to listen to the conversation going on in the car.’ (21) An […]

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Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent’s most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one of […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

Introduction There are a couple of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher’s recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson’s ‘spymaster’, the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] study: Murphy’s Law……. Notes Robert Verkaik, ‘The Freedom of Information Act misused’, The Independent, 22 March 2007. The complete text can be read at . For a BBC version of the original ‘Israeli art students’ story from 2002 see . Or, rather, don’t see that URL for it evoked a 404 when I tried […]

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Perfidious Albion: an end to deceit

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World Mark Curtis London: Vintage, 2003; p/b, £7.99 This latest analysis of British foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large […]

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Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Jenkins of Hillhead. She is now a senior colleague of Mandelson’s close friend, Sir John Birt, in her job as deputy managing director of the Foreign Office-funded BBC World Service. Liddle’s brother-in-law is Liberal Democrat peer Lord Newby of Rothwell, now a director of the public affairs company, Matrix Communications. Newby left the Civil […]

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No smoke without fire?

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] played a significant role in this.()Programmes either ridiculing local government or calling it into question (‘Beadle’s About’, ‘That’s Life’, for example) are ultimately quite corrosive. The current BBC approach to reporting serious issues, Paxman scoffing at all interviewees, the daily knocking copy of the ‘Today’ programme and the various polite but lightweight Dimbleby panel […]

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Operation Black Dog

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Fuel Air device destroyed all evidence of the illegal counter-strike too, by incinerating bodies. In the search for corroboration I was advised to contact Tim Sebastian, former BBC correspondent and well-known author. Sebastian confirmed he also had the same information as I, and recommended I contact the Countess of Mar – a member of […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 1987, notably through the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the claim being that the operations against the Wilson government were designed to ‘stabilise’ not destabilise it; and by BBC TV producer Peter Taylor, who argued (Sunday Telegraph (21 January 1990) that ‘there was a conspiracy to remove from Northern Ireland but the purpose I believe […]

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Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] London’s gay scene. There are also more detailed accounts of a number of the episodes in Pencourt, including the moves made by the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring […]

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