David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] in question. Reading it will probably give you a much better understanding of what I am trying to explain! https:// www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-uk-foia.pdf . . . With that in mind, I can see from page 166 of Annie’s book that the redaction, censoring the direct attempt to name Tunworth, is about 15 letters long. This prompts […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] force, whilst remaining outside the single market, implies importing a substantial workforce from countries further afield than Europe. Perhaps this is what she and Starmer have in mind. 13 Part of which is the continued belief that the UK has one of the richest economies in the world. Frequently described as being the ‘5th […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] – where it was considered Russia would exercise a veto and prevent action by the international community – they were not unreasonable considerations to be born in mind before engaging in military action. They were only of value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Summer 2010 be overcome in order to lodge an application with the IPT. In order to ensure the efficiency of the secret surveillance regime, and bearing in mind the importance of such measures to the fight against terrorism and serious crime, the Court considers that the restrictions on the applicant’s rights in the context […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] assembled on his premiership records a fall from grace summed up by its title. ‘The demure public image was the front of a woman with a steely mind who was fiercely protective of her husband and family. She formed a strong, and to some at No 10 surprising, alliance with Damian McBride and Charlie […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]

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