Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] resources on psyops has been the publicity surrounding former Army information officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace and allegations of a disinformation campaign.’ But I thought the MOD line was that Wallace was making it all up? Tara lives? Still in Wallace country, Roy Garland, former member of William ‘the Beast of Kincora’ McGrath’s […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] a matter of state security so why bother to tell a Liberal Democrat MP who was never going to be in charge of the Ministry; or the MoD was as much in the dark as the rest of us. But we should also look critically at claims on sources. By September we have references […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] my overcoat, in their front room, with them, Fred and his wife, Marie-Claire. At one point I said something like this: ‘So on one side there’s the MOD, MI5 and all their media assets, and on the other there’s us, with hardly a penny between us.’ Everybody laughed. We laughed a lot in those […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, and […]