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

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]

Everybody now loves widgets!

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] their fixation on international neo-con economics can take a running jump. And how likely is that? 7 Even in defence procurement. New regulations from the EU came into force last year. They are summarised by the MOD at Reporting on this, the Financial Times article was headed ‘MoD will no longer favour UK companies’. 8

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] article in the New Statesman in November 1984 and amplified by Tam Dalyell MP. Pursuing the Belgrano issue, and prompted by leaks from Clive Ponting at the MoD, Dalyell was misinformed by one of his sources (unidentified) about Green’s actual role during the Falklands War and suggested in the Commons that Murrell had been […]

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