The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] small minority. Mass espionage, which is what the Iraqis were playing at, is designed to create fear. Protection Security became the norm. My Baghdad-born father was an agent with the SIS and my family was lucky in that when I was a schoolgirl and we were under actual Iraqi threat in London, we had […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the porphyrias, the genetic description of which need not detain us, except to say briefly that porphyrins are required by the body to produce heme, the oxygen-binding agent in human blood. Porphyrin abnormalities fall into two types: the acute variety affects the nervous system producing symptoms such as unpredictable mental disturbances, muscular weakness and […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

Lobster Issue

[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]

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