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 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] material and are thus impossible to evaluate at present. It is on the plus side that they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] up in Whitehall to look at potentially embarrassing FOI requests, was hardly a surprise.(4) But I did not imagine something as ingenious as the claim by the MOD that millions of their files have been contaminated by asbestos and are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] QC, after examining the evidence, had found that the 1975 Civil Service Appeal Board hearing of Colin Wallace’s appeal against his dismissal had been rigged by the MOD, just as Wallace had claimed; and this meant that Wallace was eventually going to win his struggle with the British state. (Calcutt’s judgement is reproduced in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] the 1980s battle of Helen Smiths father, a retired policeman, to prove that his daughter, a nurse, was murdered in Saudi Arabia. This pitched him against spook, MOD and FO officials alike – along with the British class system – who perceived state and private sector interests to be best served by cynical cover-up […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] compiled during the CIA/Army’s Project OFTEN, examining several thousand chemical compounds, during 1976-1973, is a most likely candidate for any chemical agents for nonlethal weapons. The British MoD is already developing a ‘microwave bomb’. Work on the weapon is going on at the Defence Research Agency at Farnborough, Hampshire. See Sunday Telegraph September 27, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at . 4 3 used by Wallace to highlight McGrath’s homosexuality and his role in running a children’s home) and wrote […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] 8 Foreign Office quoted in Curtis (see note 5) p. 41. security interests.’9 To the general public, NATO is promoted as a humanitarian intervener. As the UK MoD has said, the public only tolerates war when it perceives ‘moral legitimacy’. Libya has the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Nigeria has the second largest […]
