The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] as it were, I noticed that the ‘Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world’ at or . 48 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] one of the results of its labours is a collection of essays, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: Case Studies from the Athena Project (Terrorism) edited by David Wright. You might think the EU would want the information widely available, posted on a website somewhere, with free access. Au contraire. This was published in late […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the security services. They decided to use the Northern Ireland intelligence apparatus to smear Wilson and others. That was 12 years before the former MI5 officer, Peter Wright, made similar allegations. Mr Blake Knox’s depiction of me as a ‘professional fantasist’ is a contemporary example of disinformation, an attempt to discredit my initial and […]

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[…] she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 21 Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] one of the results of its labours is a collection of essays, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: Case Studies from the Athena Project (Terrorism) edited by David Wright. You might think the EU would want the information widely available, posted on a website somewhere, 13 14 . See, for example, this account of Ken […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] one of the results of its labours is a collection of essays, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: Case Studies from the Athena Project (Terrorism) edited by David Wright. You might think the EU would want the information widely available, posted on a website somewhere, 13 14 . See, for example, this account of Ken […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] provision in the US Constitution that the President must be a native-born citizen. 8 The most useful definition of the term ‘Establishment’ is probably found in C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956). correctness’ can so easily be appropriated throughout the outer party – that is in both the Establishment […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] deal of new detail. The CIA’s role in getting Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago published in the West is described; as is the Agency’s encounter in Paris with Richard Wright and James Baldwin. They were both initially promoted by the CIA until they noticed that the Agency’s people were only interested in their criticisms of the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 21 Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]

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