Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] means anything that damages ‘reputation’: for example, if there is a suggestion that a product is faulty, or if a subsidiary is found to have supported child labour or spoiled the environment. This damages overall business activity and can undermine licence to operate. Resulting action, sometimes including regulatory and legislative action, can cost millions. […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] all that a few, a very few malcontents in MI5, a lot of them right wing, malicious…..were spreading damaging and malicious stories about some members of that Labour Government’. This may very well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] with most Africans, could shoot straight, or seemed able to learn.’) More interesting, he was a member of an SAS team dispatched to Thailand by Harold Wilson’s Labour government to train Thai special forces. This, it was hoped by the regiment, was the beginning of a more substantial commitment that would end with British […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] the pension she was due and resist SIS attempts to get her to spy for them in Parliament. She formed an unlikely long-distance alliance with the left-wing Labour MP the late Bob Cryer who, like her, was interested in the corruption of the parliamentary lobbying system. They never met. Just before their first arranged […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]