The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] intelligence content: ‘MI5 lead hunt for IRA arms dumps’ in 2011 which began ‘Irish terrorists are feared to be planning an attack on mainland Britain using explosives hidden in Wales and the South-west’, which has no stated sources and may have come from MI5.6 With no apparent interest in intelligence stories Fielding has uncritically […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty Amidst the chorus of derision at President Trump’s economic policies, I haven’t noticed a single voice pointing out that his apparent aim of rebuilding the US manufacturing economy behind tariff […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] involvement with the European Far Right is obviously a subject that requires considerable more attention, especially considering that it has, as Wolff puts it, been ‘only loosely hidden’. (p. 162) Bannon has also met with Nigel Farage and with Boris Johnson. (Johnson would have rather this meeting remained secret, but Bannon needs the publicity.) […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] in the New World Order (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000). John Lindsay Poland makes much the same point about the media in Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003) p. 122. That said, there were many important exceptions, and I am grateful to the diligent […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from 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 story 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 […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from 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 story 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 […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] with proprietors, without any officials involved. This was done in the guise of a ‘Government-sponsored advertising campaign’ – the cost of which has been, so far, successfully hidden away. This subsidy arrangement ‘began in April 2020 and was called “All In, All Together”’. It was budgeted ‘at £35 million for the first three months’ […]

Accessibility Toolbar