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
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] expecting any reader to demur. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Glass records his return to London with an observation that needs to be repeated: ‘The Labour apparatchiks swallowed whole the late Tory view that the public does not exist……. everyone is a customer; all services and professions are businesses.’ The public did […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] 1 per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer…Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] practice as opposed to just finance and accounting. This involved the collection and classification of both general and detailed intelligence on many hitherto peripheral matters. These included labour relations, availability of raw materials, plants, products, markets and the effectiveness of the organisation and its future prospects. They had also begun to work closely with […]