The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Demonstration Squad – which infiltrated every political/social group worth mentioning on the left in London – was not being run by the Special Branch but, rather, by MI5. This is not really surprising, though: who else would have the resources to run such a gigantic operation? If you are not following this story, there […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]

Kincora: Britain’s shame by Chris Moore

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. Exposure of the actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] The 2020 On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser. See . 38 39 See . 12 run by the Special Branch but, rather, by MI5. This is not really surprising, though: who else would have the resources to run such a gigantic operation? If you are not following this story, there […]

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[…] *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up.2 I will be reviewing this in these columns anon but in the meantime here is […]

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[…] Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that the Irish journalist, Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up.2 I will be reviewing this in these columns anon but in the meantime here is […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

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