Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from […]

undercover cops book

Lobster Issue

[…] biggest political scandals in our domestic politics since the end of WW2. In a different society, the discovery that British policemen and women, managed and directed by MI5, had infiltrated and spied upon virtually every group on the left from tenants’ groups upwards, would have led to major changes in the way the state […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Dr Theo Kindynis,3 there are signs of life in British academic political studies. *new* Google AI and our secret history I have been reformatting Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’, and have thus read it for the first time in years. It describes the network of right-wing groups, paramilitary groups, spooks […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] say, Hollywood movie moguls. Ostensibly part of a chieftain rolling programme – Sir John’s speech followed those given by the director of GCHQ and directors general of MI5 – the statement was the finale to an impressive three pronged SIS PR campaign. In addition to Sir John’s talk, this comprised the September launches of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] state that is America? Is it just personal greed? See no evil On a single day in mid August I found the following stories on dailymaverick.co.za: ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of […]

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