The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] opposition which had afflicted Jack Jones.113 On the other hand, the fact that Fairclough recycles this old right-wing MI5 nonsense suggests that he may have been the spook he claims. So there was no ‘communist threat’ in post-war Britain? I wrote about this in 1993. I concluded then that there had been such a […]

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Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex- spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account of Sharman’s investigation of this network (and occasionally killing as the Russians try […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] times, that there may be a subtext we are not aware of. There are two obvious possibities here: Fraser threatened to reveal other paedophiles; Fraser was a spook. 10 11 12 5 investigation not to the Goddard Inquiry, which has the power to compel testimony from witnesses, but to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) […]

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