Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] (London: Verso, 2010); Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988 and Scott Newton The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic His tory (London: Routledge, 2017); Barnett’s introduction to the 2021 edition of Nairn’s Break-Up of Britain and P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism 1688-2015, 3rd […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] CIA. We applied the Agency’s very best operational, analytic, and technical tradecraft to what is one of the largest and most intensive investigations in the Agency’s his tory. The CIA remains committed to ensuring continued access to care for affected officers and to fully investigating any reports of health incidents. (Emphasis added.) And yet […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] just write stupid shit. Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘JFK: a death that sparked a thousand conspiracies’1 is a classic example. Sandbrook is a popular writer of recent British his tory but he knows nothing at all about the Kennedy assassination. And there’s the point: he doesn’t think he needs to know anything before rehashing the lone […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] with ‘***’. Sneaky, very sneaky. I have already mentioned the factual errors within the report but I should also point out that it appears to be contradic tory. Paragraph 2 has this on the Russian state: ‘By contrast, it has a small population compared with the West; a lack of both reliable partners and […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to his tory and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, quick job for him; to write […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] ‘Putting tens of millions of 5G antennas, without a single biological test of safety, has to be about the stupidest idea anyone has had in the his tory of the world’. Professor Pall is wrong, however: it is not a stupid idea but a heinous crime if one understands the motive behind this deployment. […]

The Two Goulds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] a major British political party suggested opposing the City of London. My treatment in issue 62 was a sketch. Here is some more detail. The back s tory Without seeking to confront the overseas lobby –the City–Bank of England– Treasury-Foreign Office nexus of the period – the Wilson, Callaghan and Heath Governments between 1964 […]

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