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 […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] his son some useful experience.’ Goodhart also told me about ‘meeting security service people at a couple of seminars’ and ‘one dinner’. Goodhart downplayed these meetings with MI5 officials, but added, ‘Yes I support the security services, don’t you?’ Prospect, founded in 1995, now has a healthy 28,000 circulation. Its generally centre left stance […]

Lobster review: Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

Lobster Issue

A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)

[PDF file]: […] of the split is twice as much research into a field that is mostly ignored by the mainstream press. Both are worth investigating for their research on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security […]

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