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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] Lebzelter, ‘Henry Hamilton Beamish and the Britons; Champions of Anti-Semitism’ in Lunn and Thurlow (eds) see note 4 above: first (unnumbered) page of her essay. 84 The hidden anti-semitism of the political Right in this period is visible, for example, in the autobiography of John Baker White (see note 69 above). White (p. 123) […]

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 […]

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 secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Stasi brutality, attempting to discredit the tour guides by deliberately starting arguments with them in front of their impressionable charges.30 At far higher levels, this network of hidden persuaders has even jury-rigged investigations undertaken by the United Nations, in order to engineer findings that favour ex-Stasi men.31 After 1983, KD Treptow was relocated from […]

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