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 […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] a policy of deliberate camouflage. All mention of Fascism and National Socialism was banned, and while the party would still be anti-Jewish, this too would be carefully hidden. Instead the party would position itself as anti-Communist, rather than pro-Nazi. A few British Nazis travelled to Germany to make propaganda broadcasts on behalf of the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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* 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 […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] resources necessary for the British forces to have any serious chance of completing their mission successfully. Troop numbers were wholly inadequate. The resulting fiasco has been largely hidden from public view, not least courtesy of the Murdoch press that celebrated the whole sad affair as a glorious victory. But historians are certain to see […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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