Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] two things about me, says FBI interrogator’, CNN Opinion. 21 March 2023, at or . 36 Gordon Corera, ‘How the search for Iraq’s secret weapons fell apart’, BBC News, 21 March 2023, at . 37 David Frum, ‘The Iraq War reconsidered’, The Atlantic, 13 March 2023 at or . 38 See Bergen (note 35). […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] was prompted to look at it for the first time in a while by seeing the headline on Gosling’s latest email collection: ‘Wife-Killer Prince Charles Flexes Orwellian BBC Mind-Control Muscle, Eyes Global Great Reset & Peace Antichrist Roles’. Yesterday’s men Two of yesterday’s men, Conservative MPs Philip Hammond, former Chancellor the Exchequer, and Alan […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] methods deployed by the RUC SB as they followed the approach recommended by Walker and Oldfield clearly caused some unease within the force. In September 2019 the BBC Northern Ireland current affairs TV series Spotlight broadcast an episode about the suspected shoot-to-kill policy. It featured Raymond White, who stated that in 1986, when head […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] between the country as it actually is and as it is represented in Westminster.30 If Butler and McTeague are political commentators, Libby Purves is not. Times columnist, BBC presenter for many years, Purves is the personification of the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, apolitical (but conservative) journalist.31 But things are now so bad even Purves was moved […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Park. 22 As good a point to start for anyone who might want to read more about ‘Numbers Stations’ would be and the YouTube upload of a BBC Radio 4 programme at . 23 An official, and very dry account is at the Intelligence Corps Museum website at A more entertaining read can be […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] with the help of the joint intelligence committee . . . Due to be published last autumn it was blocked by No 10 as too negative’. The BBC discussed it on the 27th,6 so evidently Whitehall had ‘As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] – no evidence could be found that Smith had ever been arrested with a car boot full of sex magazines. After Danczuk first outed Smith (in 2012), BBC Newsnight ran a lengthy piece on the case. Careful scrutiny indicated that those making claims against Smith seemed to be alleging physical mistreatment (being knocked around, […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] McEnany, For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond (Saint Petersburg ; Liberatio Protocol, 2021), 1 1 Jon Sopel, the BBC correspondent, reported this episode, ‘innocent protestors exercising their First Amendment rights . . . were tear-gassed and rubber-bulleted out of the way’ for a ‘photo-op pure […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for […]

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