Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] to stop Siddique Khan before 7/7 they are also admitting that they have no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] European countries can do this there can be no conceivable reason for not doing so other than it would shock the public as to the extent of surveillance, spying and the use of informants. MI5 is on record as destroying a vast number of these files – what has not been destroyed should be […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence which points to Churchill being prepared for the events of 10 May and therefore in a position to quash any attempted coup. He maintained an extensive surveillance of those suspected of harbouring proNazi, or pro-peace views. The Duke of Buccleugh was closely watched and indeed complained about this in letters to R. A. […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a situation where the pursuit of freedom from arbitrary power simply ends up producing more arbitrary power, and as a result, regulations choke existence, armed guards and surveillance cameras appear everywhere, science and creativity are smothered, and all of us end up finding increasing percentages of our day taken up in the filling out […]