Political life in Britain

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[…] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

Running Rings

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[PDF file]: […] large hay stack.6 On the other hand, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital campaign organisation reported in 2021: Almost one year after EFF called on Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it appears they are starting to make this necessary change. This call was a response to a number of […]

Book reviews

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[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] background to Leading Aircraftsman Bill Walker’s experience can be found at . His son’s transcription of the memoir is in the PDF file at or . 26 surveillance from the German observation hut near Bill’s billet. He reckoned that the co-pilot (who died in the crash) might have spent twenty minutes when the engines […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.43 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]

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[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to Clint Watts and Andrew Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] of how far the Secret State had become involved in the dispute. It ran covert operations against NUM members and on occasion committed murder.18 It used electronic surveillance by GCHQ and employed a network of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[PDF file]: […] and The Move and won.2 1 During the period between the appearance of the postcard and the subsequent legal denouement, Secunda and The Move found themselves under surveillance by the state (presumably Special Branch) who followed them on tour around the UK as they promoted ‘Flowers in the Rain’. Wilson’s lack of humour arose […]

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