Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] economic crises. From the perspective of the British establishment the great merit of Brandon was, first, his ability through his Sunday Times articles to carry to the liberal intelligentsia the case for the special relationship, and secondly, his talent for delivering to senior British politicians and diplomats his well-founded insights into what their opposite […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] genuine intellectually and morally retarded voice of ‘national security’. L’etat? C’est nous. EXTRA! EXTRA! is the newsletter of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), a US left/ liberal response to AIM (Accuracy In Media). It is edited by Martin A. Lee and its Executive Director is Jeff Cohen. It is 16 pages, A4, beautifully […]

Rebel, rebel

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] fides of their southern Irish counterparts, considering many to be still IRA men at heart, waiting for the opportunity to restart the war; or there was a liberal hope that limited self-government was a step towards some form of political rapprochement and reunion, albeit on different terms than before. Few were willing to accept […]

Spies at Work

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit … Read more

Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] (1983) pp52/53Here it should be mentioned that masonry in France is still of political significance. It is split into several organisations. The French Grand Orient is politically liberal, and has sharply attacked the Nouvelle Ecole school in its journal Humanisme (March 1981). The more conservative, pro-British Grande Loge Nationale Francais is based in Neilly-sur-Seine, […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] tell anyone – not even my wife. They will go with me to the grave, and that is where some of them should stay.’(12) Dr. David Kelly Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, gave an account of his investigations into the death of David Kelly at a public meeting in Lewes, East Sussex, on 11 […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d […]

A vote in the can is worth two for George Bush

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] of his insight shortly after election day. Who does Mr Morris think is to blame for the discrepancies in exit polling? Why, the usual monolithic conspiracy of liberal, leftie, terrorist-loving, media pantywaists, of course. Mr Morris’s extravagant claims are worth quoting at some length. ‘Exit polls,’ he (rightly) remarked, ‘are almost never wrong. They […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

Kissinger Commission Letter in International Herald Tribune 22nd January 1984 from one Eugene L. Stockwell who testified before the Kissinger Commission on Central America. He writes: “During my hour and a half testimony most of the commissioners repeatedly indicated that they believed today’s Nicaragua to be as bad or worse than Nicaragua under Somoza; Mr … Read more

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] compromise this work enough to mean that it is not definitive. Burrows is prepared to take the DIA’s Soviet Military Power at face value – something no liberal defence analyst is prepared to do – and also regards the process of actual analysis of overhead intelligence as a purely objective process, which the experience […]

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