View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Well, here we are. According to a report by the The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) – to quote the subheading of their s tory – ‘While some enjoy a standard of living comparable to the most prosperous regions of Europe, the poorest are now poorer than the poorest parts of […]

How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] can see. One was by Robert Skidelsky at or . 2 3 He is profiled at . and employment . . . .’ (p. 109) His explana tory comments are these: ‘Her government’s economic and exchange rate policies may have brought down inflation, but they took no prisoners as export orders dried up and […]

Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] subsequent behaviour of Johnson (and Dominic Cummings), it is easy to forget that there are only 365 Conservative MPs. In fact, so loudly has their 2019 vic tory been proclaimed and so quiet have been the opposition parties since that debacle, an acceptance seems to be abroad that either very little can be done […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] permanent surveillance. (p. 112) Professor van der Pijl does not believe there was any need for the great Covid shutdown. This is the first pandemic in his tory that is not self-evident to everybody but rather requires mass indoctrination on the basis of extensive ‘testing’, media censorship, etc. (p. 23) The Covid condition, certainly […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed 2 See also Deighton, who isn’t even an elected […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* The British Gladio Back at the s tory of the British Gladio, published in Lobster 81. In this column below I quoted a paragraph from Wayne Thallon’s Devil Incarnate (London: Mainstream, 2007), the memoir […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] an English woman into a Palestinian bombing team in Germany, at a time when The Little Drummer Girl was still selling at airport bookstalls worldwide The s tory of a rebellious English actress inserted into the PLO and then smuggled into Germany to wreck a Palestinian bombing campaign was filmed by Hollywood in 1983 […]

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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the development of the Euro coincided with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union. It was a time of optimism, the ‘end of his tory’, and the triumph of unfettered globalisation and market forces. They have to thereby acknowledge that the subsequent rejection of European policy initiatives to promote more integration […]

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