The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] meals because poor parents can’t afford to buy them and girls are skipping school every month. Welcome to Blighty 2017! Illumination Will Banyan, who wrote ‘The ” Rothschild connection”: the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq’ in Lobster 63,112 has written a very interesting account of the relationship between the media and […]

Londongrad

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] We learn that some of the think-tanks benefited from oligarch largesse long before Alexander Lebedev bought more direct public influence by acquiring the London Evening Standard. The Rothschild family feature prominently in this story and the authors recount the warm welcome Ken Livingstone gave to the Russian influx in his days as Mayor of […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted 
 (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Europa appeared, the Grand Lodge of Austria (at behest of Hertz) recommended it to freemasons internationally. Additional funding for the Pan European Union came from Baron Louis Rothschild and Max Warburg, both freemasons. By 1926 these connections had been noted by fellow Austrian, Adolf Hitler, who pronounced ‘What Coudenhove writes could have been written […]

The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Declaration, takes us back to the imperial rivalries and the conflicts that led to the First World War from which the British Foreign Secretary’s letter via Lord Rothschild to the Zionist Federation originated. This was a world not only where British imperialism coloured much of the globe red, but one where the Ottoman empire […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: ‘Prayers were more important than votes’ Donald Trump and the Christian Right John Newsinger God and Donald Trump Stephen Strang Frontline Books, 2017 The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography David Brody and Scott Lamb HarperCollins, 2018 Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him Stephen Mansfield BakerBooks, 2017 […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] largely depends on the US network he developed as PM, especially in the Middle East, Mandelson looks largely to the Russian and East European oligarchs with Nat Rothschild and Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP being key figures in helping build the wealth that now affords him an £11m home in Regent’s Park. What both […]

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