The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 12 3 Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] introduction to the Israelis by his law chambers colleague and president of the Board of Deputies Eldred Tabachnik. Nor is it still widely known that the Israeli embassy introduced Blair to Levy, who then opened the till that freed his tennis pal from party obligations. Much of what happened under the Blair premiership remains […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] operating on Ukrainian territory. What Nalyvaichenko undoubtedly did have, however, was contacts in Washington DC, established during his time there as a consul to the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Soon after Nalyvaichenko put forward his tale of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine, it was picked up, parroted, and embellished by two key figures on the US […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]

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