Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] was published by AP on 4 May 2022. The AP video itself is examined as part of this essay, in Appendix One. Before proceeding, let us re mind ourselves of the supposed survivors of the attack, as seen in the hoax video. Figure 1 1 Figure 1 above shows three sequential frames from the […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] no more use and dumped him, leaving Wyatt to lament into his tape-recorder that Murdoch ‘has behaved like a swine and a pig’) and so to my mind the look of this ‘meeting with conspirators’ is that the whole thing was orchestrated by Mr Murdoch himself. It’s the simplest explanation. It’s clear from this […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. It was a classic non-denial denial. Secondly, he […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] now grandchildren — have never known a world war. This is weird. It equates ‘peace’ with the absence of world war or great power military conflict. Never mind the millions killed by the American state in South East Asia (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and many countries in South and Central America in the name […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] now grandchildren — have never known a world war. This is weird. It equates ‘peace’ with the absence of world war or great power military conflict. Never mind the millions killed by the American state in South East Asia (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and many countries in South and Central America in the name […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to Mr Adams’ readers, notwithstanding his admirable research to document his story from official records.2 This review examines Milteer might not have had a specific motorcade in mind at this stage. President Kennedy visited Miami fairly often, for personal reasons: the Kennedy family had a compound overlooking Palm Beach. 1 For example, the book’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Brexit. Consequently I do not believe it will happen.2 As the ‘negotiations’ proceed, a negative feedback 1 or . 2 I voted ‘leave’ in the referendum. Never mind the destruction of Greece by the EU, described in detail in the new book by Yanis Varoufakis; a union based on the free movement of capital […]

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