Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at MI6, MI5 and GCHQ respectively for the previous three weeks. The scale of excitement in the reporting ranged from the fairly sober BBC (‘The Duke of Cambridge has […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] David Stirling would have been involved at some level. However, that would have been as nothing, in terms of breaking the NUM strike, as the interference from MI5 and GCHQ. For Hart’s claim re. ex-SAS protection, see page 18 of the programme’s transcript, available on the Undercover Policing Inquiry website at: . For details […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]