Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] although the ‘spin’ is homage to the baby, its real purpose is to flatter ‘ordinary’ people. (A bit like President Bush saying ‘the American people are the boss’.) It is one of the best examples of ‘fusion’ there is rich/poor/animals/the heavens united in reverence not least because the ‘real’ status quo are […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
Notes From the Borderland Larry O’Hara now has his own journal, Notes from the Borderland, the first issue of which appeared in November last year. Like his previous pamphlets, this is full of fascinating information on the far right – the guts of the lead article on a charity scam being run in the UK … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] positioned in the cells of that group that we could prevent actions because of the credibility of our source.’ This is reminiscent of the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] part of the Police Service. My gut feeling is that there exists almost a taboo against pressing home the need for continued Special Branch scrutiny or accountability. BOSS and our own spook services dropped a real clanger that truly rebounded at least on the Criminal Injustice System when Peter Hain was fingered for a […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] is what official sources and investigations, and well-heeled publishers and producers, threaten to give us. In the beginning was the mob Back in 1936, Lucky Luciano, the boss of Mafia drug and prostitution rackets in New York City, was finally convicted as a result of Thomas Dewey’s prosecution, and sentenced to thirty to fifty […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears they … Read more