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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] in the intelligence response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait……’ Let us look at this ‘response’. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on 16 September 2001, Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, stated: ‘……I worked in British military intelligence before, and during the Gulf War. We failed to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. After the war….. inevitably […]

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] how their accuracy has been confirmed by the report. (See for more details.) Notes 1 Anon, ‘Labourer Accused of Murrell Killing’,Birmingham Post 4 November 2003, p.3; Jamie Wilson, ‘Two Arrested over 1984 Murder of Peace Activist’, The Guardian 17 February, 2004, p.2; Richard War-burton , ‘Murrell Mystery: Two Held by Police’, Birmingham Post, 17 […]

The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC […]

SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]

Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of Jonathan Marshall’s Parapolitics.The best mail order catalogue […]

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] amplifying the Combat 18 ‘threat’, knowing that it was a state operation. So tell me, pray, why do we have a police squad targetting an MI5 operation? Wilson Plots The sound of marching feet. ‘Captains of industry’ sometimes write books in the ‘How To Save Britain’ sub-genre. (I remember an anthology in the late […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] and what they had to tell us about the state’s activities in Northern Ireland and the UK; and related to that are a couple about the wider ‘Wilson plots’. And the basic question which runs through Lobster and this book – how much interference from the secret state, or secret states, has there been? […]

The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50   The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s […]

The Rape of Socialism

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and poor […]

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