The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest was reported on the BBC News website: he wants a ‘global fund for education’.6 No doubt this will be next on the list after the new global financial system he wants […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] general elections. And this was a literal conspiracy by the Israel lobby in the UK, as Winstanley has documented in minute detail.39 Erstwhile token lefty on the BBC, Paul Mason has a similar reaction in his review of a film on this subject, a screening of which was planned for the Glastonbury festival but […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] for his homespun homilies. I was aware that Friedman’s ideas were in the air but had neither read nor seen him; and, like the politicians in the BBC studio, I was astonished: why was this idiot being taken seriously? At this distance the interesting historical question is: how and why did the editors of […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] that, on the preponderance of evidence, Olaf Neitsch’s father was indeed a Stasi officer, even though that Stasi officer might not have been Herbert Neitsch. 10 11 BBC News, 15 January 2017. See . An academic study has analysed the degree of nepotism in the Stasi’s Karl-Marx-Stadt district office, where the above-mentioned Herbert Neitsch […]

Meltdown UK, and, Crisis and Recovery

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now director of the Global Policy Institute, a senior fellow of the Federal Trust and a prominent republican, opining recently on BBC Radio 4 on the forthcoming royal marriage. His latest book is a fulminating criticism of those elected to power in Britain while he was busy on […]

Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue

[…] read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words I’d heard on the BBC were there. But so was her description of how as a 21-year-old Oxford student the then Shirley Catlin was funded by the US government to take […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] to creating a ‘Weishauptian world rule’.6 0 The historical record is less convincing. Despite their support for a number of geopolitical 57 ‘Iraq war illegal, says Annan’, BBC News, 16 August 2004. 58 Philippe Sands, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, (London: Allen Lane, 2005), p. 203; and Richard […]

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 […]

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 […]

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