The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] killed 28 people in a series of random shootings in Belgium in the 1980s.’1 Although Gladio was originally the name of the Italian network, when this s tory was revealed in the Italian press, Gladio became the shorthand for the entire multinational network. Officially Britain had no Gladio network. Almost nothing has come to […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

Lobster Issue

A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

[PDF file]: […] near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we workers lived in a reality of which she appeared to have no understanding.’ Enoch Powell and Michael Foot ‘could hold the Commons spellbound with their ora tory, but if you read the speeches in Hansard the next day, Powell’s was the one with more substance’. (Having once covered a Foot speech I returned […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and a beard and this lead to them being referred to as “hairies”. Over time, subjects of interest became known as “wearies”. This was a slightly deroga tory colloquial term for individuals that were viewed as hard work and tiresome. These titles which now seem archaic and inappropriate remained in use by the unit […]

The End of Progress: How modern economics has failed us by Graeme Maxton

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] meeting of the International Monetary Fund. A safe distance from home, he made a speech that rather let the cat out of the bag in terms of Tory labourmarket policy. Many of the jobs of tomorrow, Lawson said, would not be ‘high tech’. They may not even be ‘low tech’. Instead, they would be […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 About the collection he writes: The context of these essays, the cultural his tory of the United States, is also one of a country that has been at war for most of its history. This is a war memoir, but […]

Accessibility Toolbar