Lobster review: Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

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A  review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001

[PDF file]: […] through the 1980s, Lobster engages with current issues; Northern Ireland, the 1984 Miners’ Strike, CND, GCHQ, Falklands. As the decade progressed, the scene develops; Airey Neave and Thatcher, the Hilda Murrell killing, Stalker, and the field widens on to hacking and what we might now call cyber-warfare, microwave and low frequency sonic weapons, and […]

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[…] Herb Meyer worked with David Hart and Brian Crozier in the 1980s peddling the ‘enemy within’ story. See and . 5 7 8 a Soviet satellite. Mrs Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, certainly believed something like this and, while Leader of the Opposition, tried to get the state to take the allegations about […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been reissued as an e-book. One can only hope that the reign of terror in and by the US that expanded vastly with the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan will finally reach the consciousness of the white ‘Left’ and those whose sentimental attachment to the American creation myth is […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] finding out facts. If a trick works once it might just work again. One overlooked aspect of F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (the book Margaret Thatcher slapped the table with saying that it had taken over her mind) is in a short section called ‘Why the Worst Get on Top’, where it […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the day-to-day activities of Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. The output from the latter days of the COI come across, now, as being rather miserable. During the Thatcher years it was used to justify the dismantling and sale of national infrastructure, notably with the 1986 British Gas privatization adverts, which provided a cosy aesthetic […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] be inclusive, not exclusive.’ 8 These commitments were reiterated by President Bush, French President Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and by consecutive British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Soviet security US National Security Archive, Record of conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and James Baker, Moscow, 9 February 1990 at or . 7 […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski was in intelligence terms, and how many books have been written about the intelligence ‘war’, it is striking – not to […]

A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] If Parliament or the public had been told in 1999, when Savile had over a decade left to live, future offences might have been prevented. In 1988 Thatcher Government junior health minister Edwina Currie had appointed Savile to lead a task force to tackle various problems at Broadmoor.
 The entertainer had cultivated Ms Currie […]

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