Election-rigging in the UK

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]

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Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] them.(1) In New Zealand, a bunch of true believers imposed this catastrophic nonsense on their own country. This was allowed to happen because the politicians in the Labour government, which let this process begin, didn’t know enough about economics (as was true in the UK at the same time); because the opposition to these […]

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Steady Eddie blows the gaff

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] borrowing against the value of houses in a striking innovation in the annals of `Keynesian’ demand management. In 1976 Prime Minister James Callaghan became notorious on the Labour left for his speech to the Labour Party conference in which he stated that it was no longer possible to spend your way out of a […]

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Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] of consultation papers and statements covering encryption and electronic commerce in recent years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) taking the lead role.(9) Both Conservative and Labour governments, in their 1997 and 1998 papers, proposed some form of key escrow system, in which a user’s private encryption key is held by a third […]

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The British Watergate

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down the Labour Government during 1974-76 – and nothing happened. There was no serious investigation by British journalists, the Labour Party or the Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] of the Peoples of Russia was drafted which could, if stripped of its contingent allegiance to the German war effort, pass as a neo-conservative or even New Labour manifesto sixty years later. (4) It was naive in its time and it slipped through the Nazi system of ideological control in the chaos of those […]

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

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] had anything to do with MI6, but it sounds like an almost perfect cover.’ (p.x) It is interesting to note that Jenkins thought this, most politicians (especially Labour) are incredibly naive in intelligence matters. Jenkins was pretty near the truth. The Chairman of the company was Lord Glenconner (Tennant) who joined the Special Operations […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] in Britain….the main reason I wrote a novel is that the British laws on libel make it difficult, if not impossible, to describe the penetration of the Labour Party as the conspiracy which many people are certain it is.’ (pp. 59-60) Another outstanding example of this genre also used by Deacon is Frederick Forsyth’s […]

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The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95   In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of New Labour loans and the arrest (twice) of Tony Blair’s fundraiser and Middle East ‘envoy’ Lord Levy, it would have been good to have seen British publications examining […]

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Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] institutional palsy, rigor mortis disguised as resolution, and fixed-grin happiness with a resplendent past.’ (p. 31) ‘It was in the late part of this era that the Labour Party graduated into that original “Establishment”; by the fifties it had completely absorbed most of its world view. Such assumptions are extraordinarily tenacious – as “Blairism” […]

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