The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: ‘A lifelong Labour supporter and former Young Socialist, Ritchie saw no contradiction between his intelligence work and his egalitarian ideals.’2 A pinko spook? We have come a long way in the lifetime of this journal! *new* All our yesterdays I have […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on Stonehouse held by the former Czech intelligence service (Státní Bezpečnost, State Security, generally referred to as the StB) which come to opposing conclusions. Actually even ‘using much of the same material’ can’t be […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

Nurse Death’s little helper: 
Sir David Davis and the PR campaign to free Lucy Letby


Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] judiciary. Running through a few options for raising awareness about the plight of the forgotten LIBOR convicts, Mr Maltin added: I do believe in the humanity and intelligence of the ordinary British person, if that makes sense: the person on the omnibus. And that’s why the things like the Little Gem production, for you […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as his link to Wikileaks. Craig Murray has interviewed Credico at […]

GArrick reduced

Lobster Issue

[…] judiciary. Running through a few options for raising awareness about the plight of the forgotten LIBOR convicts, Mr Maltin added: I do believe in the humanity and intelligence of the ordinary British person, if that makes sense: the person on the omnibus. And that’s why the things like the Little Gem production, for you […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a part of this, and in consultation with the serving Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, John Hermon, it was decided […]

GArrick reduced

Lobster Issue

[…] judiciary. Running through a few options for raising awareness about the plight of the forgotten LIBOR convicts, Mr Maltin added: I do believe in the humanity and intelligence of the ordinary British person, if that makes sense: the person on the omnibus. And that’s why the things like the Little Gem production, for you […]

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