Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] who sympathise with Palestinians is but a small sideways step. National security droppings Immediately below, under subhead The secrets at the bus stop, I speculated that the MoD files that were dropped at a bus stop in Kent were ‘lost’ deliberately, that it was a psy-op. At the time we didn’t know who the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] they will add to the culture of mistrust and suspicion that currently characterises relations between Pakistan and the US.’ As stupid in a different way were the MOD and British armed services officers who responded to a fake (probably Chinese) Facebook ‘friend’ request apparently from the head of NATO, American Admiral James Stavridis. The […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain, the strongest criticisms are aimed at politicians and the bureaucratic mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Journalistic responsibility gets off lightly. Strikingly, neither MI5, MI6 nor GCHQ are portrayed as bad in toto. Sometimes the leaders of the intelligence services get too […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] existence across all government departments. These 101,283 files had been retained after a review under the Public Records Act; while, by contrast, the FCO Special Collections and MOD files had never been reviewed under the Act. In an account of the history of secrecy in Britain by David Vincent titled the The Culture of […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate in a US-led attack on Iran with ships, cruise missiles and access to British military bases such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.1 […]