The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Conservative Philosophy Group. During his famous weekend at Mohammed Al-Fayed’s Paris Ritz, the only call back to the UK that Aitken made was a lengthy exchange with Labour left-wing MP Diane Abbott, at her home in Hackney – an odd call for the broker of a big arms deal to make. All these items […]

The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the documentary evidence’, in Labour History Review, Vol 57 no. 3, Winter 1992. This is a look at the evidence on the links between the ‘radical right’ groups like British Empire […]

Magazines/Articles

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] expose Garrison’s investigation as a fraud.”. Did we know this? I didn’t. Survey of personnel and income of Adam Smith Institute, AIMS, CPS, Economic League etc in Labour Research February 1985. Anyone interested in the details of Oleg Bitov’s statement/fairy story concerning British intelligence’s ‘kidnapping’ of him can see some of them in Current […]

Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] Outraged, the BBC’s Newsnight organised a studio debate. It did not explain that the person supporting the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee was a leading Labour spin-doctor, Matthew Freud, using the pseudonym Oliver Kamm.On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to ‘surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers’ letters and […]

Neural Manipulation by Remote Radar

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more

Let my people go

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian People’s Alliance all support that call for a ban on ‘manipulation weapons’. But the British government, formed by the Labour Party’s leader in Parliament, Prime Minister Tony Blair, has stubbornly refused to adopt a policy of banning manipulation weapons. So has the lower house of the […]

Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the IMF

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] sell as when it was offered as world revolution. Notes 1 This, presumably, is the ‘real internationalism’ so often referred to but hardly ever defined by the Labour left. On this see the examples given in Lobster 33 pp.2/3. 2 If the American anti-globalisation left could hold its collective nose long enough to actually […]

Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] The Price of truth: the story of Reuters’ millions by John Lawrenson and Lionel Barber which will no doubt skim over Reuters’ connections to British intelligence. Former Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, although he says he’s for Freedom of Information, will likewise be closemouthed in Northern Ireland: a personal perspective (Methuen) Out soon from […]

The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] parapsychologist Edward Naumov, mentioned above, who was the key Soviet contact for the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, was sentenced to two years hard labour for a semi-related petty offence and remanded to a psychiatric ‘treatment facility’.(9) The change in the official line seems to have been an attempt not only […]

The gentleman in velvet

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the Cold War. Angleton became very important within the CIA. Not only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, […]

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