Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] allow power specialist apps such as speech recognition which can “spot” and translate particular voices from hours’ worth of intercept recordings. The deal will also allow GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] which draws heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] . or get off the pot I have distrusted Andrew Neil since he was editing the Sunday Times in the late 1980s and early 1990s and ran MI5 disinformation in its columns. These days, as well as a weekly programme on Times Radio, he writes a column for the Daily Mail. On 27 November […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] which draws heavily on “Smear”, “War Without Honour” etc. . . .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] during his ownership, this seemed questionable. I have been informed by a source close to Donovan that he used to be regularly visited by a ‘lady from MI5’ – although this source, when asked to elaborate, declined to comment any further. A tantalising, and yet inconclusive, state of affairs. 5 – James McCann, David […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the minute “Langer’s Lines” of the skin when held directly over the entrance and exit sites.’ 7 When Dr Christopher Andrew, author of the authorised history of MI5, presented the Timewatch report 8 dismissing the doppelgänger theory, the retired MI6 officer Charles Fraser-Smith, the original for Ian Fleming’s ‘Q’, came forward to insist that […]

Lobster review: Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Red Pepper magazine, #85, July 2001

[PDF file]: […] that many articles over the years dwell in depth on attacks made on Lobster (in particular, by Searchlight, which Lobster has consistently criticised as working closely with MI5). However, the magazine’s autobiographical asides are very absorbing, and there are plenty of other things to read if you want to steer clear of this. The […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk of exposure in an Inquiry) reported to MI5, Special Branch and the Police. They gathered information about the strikers’ plans and helped the authorities to frustrate their picketing operations. All this would doubtless be […]

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