The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] project that has distorted the corporation’s journalism on Brexit, Trump and, eventually, Gaza . . . . . . Gibb has been arguably the most influential yet hidden helping hand to Brexit politics, the Conservative Party and Israel, while bestriding two of the nation’s most important institutions as, variously, I went to the University […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] One is certainly that the City of London was one of the beneficiaries of Afghan corruption, with billions of dollars being smuggled out of the country and hidden away in New York, London and the Gulf states. It is unlikely that we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar’s planes at Managua’s […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] Lebzelter, ‘Henry Hamilton Beamish and the Britons; Champions of Anti-Semitism’ in Lunn and Thurlow (eds) see note 4 above: first (unnumbered) page of her essay. 84 The hidden anti-semitism of the political Right in this period is visible, for example, in the autobiography of John Baker White (see note 69 above). White (p. 123) […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] a highly unusual (almost subservient) relationship with his own PA, Lady Falkender, and erratic judgement in general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a 3-man team and probably stolen in a raid on the Irish Reserve Army barracks at Midleton, Co Cork in 1970. This deadly water-cooled weapon was partly hidden under an old sack. Stanley moved the sack, laid out his handkerchief and expertly stripped the weapon into its parts. It looked as though he could […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] successor to the post office, i.e. the internet, he creates a space to discuss what we mean by rational management by the state and points to the hidden attractions of Trumpism. He divides the categories in this discussion between Sovereignty (or the claim by rulers for the monopoly on the use of violence); Administration […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] Stasi brutality, attempting to discredit the tour guides by deliberately starting arguments with them in front of their impressionable charges.30 At far higher levels, this network of hidden persuaders has even jury-rigged investigations undertaken by the United Nations, in order to engineer findings that favour ex-Stasi men.31 After 1983, KD Treptow was relocated from […]

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