The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] pretty much running things themselves there with the barest accountability to, let alone direction by, the politicians. In the late 1980s after the Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd stories were publicised, it must have dawned on him that he hadn’t known what was going on while he had been the Minister. Rees’s papers are […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] of deaths. On the ground, however, the fact that there was also collusion between the state and the Loyalist paramilitaries was known by British Army personnel: Fred Holroyd, for example, who was there in the mid 1970s, wrote about this in his memoir War Without Honour (1989); and it was discussed in Roger Faligot’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular and […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Ulster Defence Regiment. Head of Production Services (cover title for Senior Information Officer, PSYOPS) Army HQ, Northern Ireland. 19 The trial of Colin Wallace by Captain Fred Holroyd In March 1981 at Lewes Crown Court, Colin Wallace was convicted of the manslaughter of 29-year-old Brighton antiques dealer, Jonathan Lewis. During a controversial three week […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?. It includes all the significant photographs of Wallace from his period in Northern Ireland, plus a good deal of Wallace and Fred Holroyd speaking recently. Highly recommended.32 NuLab The BBC TV documentary series on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in October began with the received view that the loony […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and Peter Montgomery, but also that Cunningham and Montgomery were linked with homosexual activities involving prominent people in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and London. When Fred Holroyd and I interviewed Robin Bryans he told us about a Belfast artist/painter called Sidney Smith who was allegedly a close friend or . 40 14 collection […]

View from Lob 73

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[…] on this is as convincing as the scans and the letter on his blog from his dentist attesting to the presence of the foreign bodies.40 When Fred Holroyd and I interviewed Robin Bryans he told us about a Belfast artist/painter called Sidney Smith who was allegedly a close friend of Sir Knox Cunningham and […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

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[…] Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?. It includes all the significant photographs of Wallace from his period in Northern Ireland, plus a good deal of Wallace and Fred Holroyd speaking recently. Highly recommended.39 Woke corps? Towards the end of a double-page spread in The Times (18 September hard copy; 17 digital), Gerard Baker quoted this […]

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