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 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] There are indications – no, actually considerably more than mere indications – that some of the most infamous terrorist attacks of recent years were guided by a hidden hand with a degree of technical know-how beyond that of the bombers themselves. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, wasn’t actually capable of making the bombs […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[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’ […]

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* Asil Nadir: the cover-up continues Asil Nadir’s death hit the media on 11 February. None of the obituaries which I have read strayed beyond the conventional line.1 The Times had a full […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] MP writes for Morning Star, therefore Labour MP is a communist sympathiser; therefore the Labour Party is communist. Geoffrey Stewart-Smith’s big pamphlet in the mid 1970s, The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, was a classic of this kind. 37 Obviously I am describing a version of political correctness. The British Right lampoons the […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] sometimes with newspaper clippings or photos attached. Each person had their National Insurance number and other personal data to identify them. The source of the information was hidden by code numbers although Kerr has given a list of these to the ICO. 20 Steve Kelly, 43, from Essex, was one who received a copy […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 7 Routledge (see note 4) p. 271 8 For summaries of Whitehall’s wartime anti-Sovietism and preparations for the post-war era, see for example, Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence (London: John Murray, 2001) chapter 2 or Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, (London: Fourth Estate, […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] 1 1 12,500, equivalent to 1 for every 123 of the population, a remarkably high ratio.2 As for the review of how intelligence was gathered, this was hidden from scrutiny, and implemented via a February 1981 memo. Walker and Oldfield gave the RUC Special Branch control of all areas of intelligence gathering. Any contacts […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] meaningful category. Even when caught in the lie they can try to ride it out. What his memoir demonstrates is the continued importance of going after the hidden truth, exposing the public lie, stripping away the cover-up and, moreover, the impact that the truth can still have when it is brought into the light. […]

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