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 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified.’ script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]

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. […]

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] in supporting the Taliban is now comparatively well-known and widely acknowledged, the role of the Saudis in sponsoring first AQI and later Islamic State (ISIS) still remains hidden, indeed positively taboo. The best way to regard ISIS is as a monster created, at least in part, by a Saudi Frankenstein: a monster that has […]

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 […]

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 […]

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