Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘extremely serious’. Of course not all of those should be laid at the door of the SYP as forces from around the country were deployed by the Thatcher government during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. May does not seem unhappy at taking them all on. She has long targeted the Police Federation for criticism2 5 […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

Mark Lewis and ‘the ultimate hacker’

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were described in ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’ in Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). property dealer who had several times hosted prime-minister Margaret Thatcher at his home in Preston. More delivered to Bill Harrison financial profiles of the Labour leader of Preston, the deputy Labour leader of Preston and their […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] man of destiny is required to save the country and God has chosen Donald Trump. He has been ‘served up by the hand of Providence’ like ‘Margaret Thatcher, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln’ before. (p. 64) No one should doubt what is at stake. ‘Satan’, he tells his readers, ‘considers taking this […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to create a ‘British FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] detail he gives on the Maze Prison ‘dirty protests’. Nor how the Brighton bomb affected the UK government’s public stance – including the reinforced ‘obduracy’ of Margaret Thatcher. Nor Taylor’s take on the Miami Showband killings which, I have to say, he gets very wrong. He bizarrely states that: The fact that Crozier and […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] almost right, but LOBSTER is also intriguing. A good example is issue# 11 (April 1986, 55 pp.), which is devoted to ”Wilson, �5 and the Rise of Thatcher,” or, “covert operations in British politics 1974-78.” Despite the up-front political slant, it is a comprehensive account which should be included in 104 serious study of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] values were ‘market competition, private enterprise and economic stability’. NuLab was a con-job on the members of the Labour Party. In economics they really were just Mrs Thatcher in light drag. * new * The price I remember 9/11. When the second plane hit I said to my partner something like ‘Oh shit, we’re […]

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