The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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”. […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940 8 (London: Constable, 1998). 8 and Kent were in contact from February 1940 and Wolkoff – who had been under surveillance by the security services since 1935 – was, on one occasion, seen passing papers to the Italian military attaché, Francesco Marigliano, at a London restaurant. These […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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”. […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Jimmy Carr, among others. But also present was the Minister for Defence Procurement, Maria Eagle, who spoke to the gathering, celebrating ‘the British-Israeli alliance’ and the RAF surveillance flights that were assisting IDF operations in Gaza.10 Obviously, this was not intended to leak out, but it did, further undermining the Starmer government’s credibility. Which […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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”. […]

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