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Indonesia: prelude to slaughter -- 'Lies and treachery': the origins of IRD -- Origins of the Cold War -- A crusade begins -- Korea: a hot war in a cold war -- Offensive: into the 1950s -- Nothing but the truth: IRD and the BBC -- The medium is the message: IRD and MI6 -- Agencies of change: the news agency network -- Imperial adventures: IRD and the colonies -- Spreading the word: IRD publishes -- Internal affairs: IRD's domestic campaigns -- IRD's fellow travellers -- A mirror image: the CIA -- The fat years: the 1960s -- Indian summer: IRD and the EEC -- Painting it red: IRD and Northern Ireland -- The fall

Until the end of the Cold War the UK intelligence services were not officially acknowledged, and their personnel were banned from entering the public sphere. From 1989 the UK government began to put the intelligence services on a legal footing and to release the identity of the heads of the intelligence agencies. Since then, public engagement by the intelligence agencies has gathered pace. What this article hypothesises is that there is now, in the UK, an effective intelligence lobby of former insiders who engage in the public sphere – using on the record briefings – to counter criticism of the intelligence community and to promote a narrative and vision of what UK intelligence should do, how it is supported and how oversight is conducted. Content analysis and framing models of non-broadcast coverage of intelligence debates, focusing on the 36 months after the Snowden revelations, confirm an active and rolling lobby of current and former intelligence officials. The paper concludes that the extent of the lobby's interventions in the public sphere is a matter for debate and possible concern.

Contends that the working class has been exorcized from British politics by the middle class, because it suits the latter's collective financial & psychological needs. It is noted that the Tories have subverted the working class by legislating against trade unions, & that class politics has been overshadowed by single-issue movements, eg, feminism & the environmental movement. It is further argued that the middle class's domination of labor politics has effectively demoted the needs & issues of the working class to a much lower public profile. W. Howard

An investigation of the US prison system uncovers evidence of severe overpopulation by petty drug offenders & racial minorities, particularly African Americans. Official statistical data reveal that in 1991, 94% of prison inmates were male, 48% were black, & 65% had not completed high school. Consideration is given to the reasons why the US incarcerates its citizens at a rate significantly higher than any other country in the world, & to the negative consequences of mandatory sentencing guidelines. Penal reform efforts are reviewed, with attention to radical crime-prevention programs & alternatives to jail. 3 Photographs. W. Howard

Relying on the conclusions of the West Midlands Health & Safety Advice Center, the findings of the British Health & Safety Executive regarding the death of Dennis Clarke, an industrial worker, are challenged. Clarke, age 21, passed out while cleaning a large degreasing tank in an unventilated room at work & died shortly afterwards. The Health & Safety Executive fined the company he worked for, but it did not bring manslaughter charges against any of the company's directors -- despite the compelling case presented by the Advice Center. If the government continues with its deregulation campaign, it is argued, there will be more untimely deaths like Clarke's. M. Maguire

The high incidence of body joint problems in ex-tunnel diggers in GB has brought a surge of interest in bone necrosis, an industrial disease associated with working in compressed air once thought to occur in only a tiny minority of workers. Pressurized air in tunnels reduces the risk of cave-ins & water inflows, but requires workers leaving the pressurized air environment to undergo decompression to safeguard against the development of nitrogen bubbles in the blood, which may cause the bends, paralysis, or death. Bone necrosis was believed to be associated with that decompression process. Initial findings from more recent research suggest that the cause of bone necrosis may not be decompression problems, but simply working in pressurized air. If this finding proves correct, ex-tunnelers will have an easier time pressuring government agencies & previous employers for compensation claims. D. Generoli

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