The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] son was pushed against a wall. Sarah was denied her medication. Christmas decorations were smashed. Christmas candles broken. Personal items were stuffed into a mattress, and allegedly hidden, by police. Cash was allegedly stolen. All electronic equipment was confiscated. Sarah was handcuffed so tight it cut off the circulation to her hands. No search […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] high office in the United States’. (pp. 205-208) Indeed, Smock just cannot believe that Trump’s conduct in so many areas has not finally ‘stripped away all the hidden things that made him appeal to 60 million Americans’. Writing on 5 August 2019, he hoped that millions of those who voted for Trump in 2016 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] London police sergeant in the 1850s who brought a couple to trial for an ‘indecent offence’ in a park, but was then demoted to constable for having hidden behind a tree to observe it. Now we accept surveillance cameras in every street, Google’s satellite mapping, the use of ATM and shop receipts to track […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] writes for Morning Star, therefore Labour MP is a communist sympathiser; 3 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. Obviously I am describing a version of political correctness. The British Right lampoons the 4 […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]

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 […]

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