The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Gladio in the movies Below, under subhead Briefly, the question of the portrayal of the Gladio network in film is briefly touched on. In response to that, Simon Matthews sent this. A 1979 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The miners’ strike Interesting piece by ex New York Times reporter Joe Lauria at Consortiumnews on the 40th anniversary commemoration of the miners’ strike.1 But there are two serious omissions in it. Lauria […]
[PDF file]: […] very clear during and after Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader (2015-2020). Corbyn was well-known for his long-term advocacy of the Palestinian cause and Iain Overton, ‘The MoD admits it’s “currently training a limited number” of Israeli Defense Forces in the UK’, Action on Armed Violence, 12 June 2025, . 22 John McEvoy, ‘British […]
[…] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 41 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . me, verbatim, that elections cannot be allowed to change established economic policy. In other words, that democracy […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: […] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 think ‘Well, maybe I won’t put through that price rise’, or workers, when they’re a […]
[PDF file]: […] on a mysterious visit to Brussels of a four-member SAS team lead by Kock….. On 2 March 1990, a fax message, with the heading “Visit of UK MoD Special Forces Staff to PRB”, announced the arrival in Brussels of the above four-member team for a supposed 19-21 March visit to PRB facilities.’ not coterminous.64 […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Unbecoming American Dr T. P. Wilkinson wrote a dozen or so striking essays for Lobster. Some of them are included in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] prior to 1981 and part of Team B.1 7 The 1999 conference gathered together former Ambassadors to the US, a former Chief of Defence Intelligence at the MoD, a Labour Defence Spokesman, advisors to British Aerospace and Edward Streator, the chairman of the IEDSS’ New Atlantic Initiative, who also wrote for the Council for […]
