The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] And – who knows? – maybe some of Ware’s earlier journalism will be examined. Two examples of this have been covered in Lobster: his recycling of the MoD lies about Colin Wallace and his portrait of the politics of Brent, described in Simon Matthews’ ‘Baa baa white sheep’.132 My guess is that, faced with […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that the likes of AWS will be seen as so indispensable to GCHQ that it becomes as integral to its operations as BAE Systems is to the MoD, with all the monopolistic power that entails, with the potential for cost overruns and cosy relations etc. The growing dependence on Cloud services and the potential […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Undertakings and Agreements under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005’ (a.k.a. guidelines for engaging criminal informants) runs to over 14,000 words. or 33 ‘Secret British MoD Files Record MRF’s Failure to Protect Freds’ ’ or 34 A good introduction to the MRF can be found in chapter 2 of Martin Dillon’s The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* What could possibly go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a weird coincidence that the […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

Lobster Issue

[…] All that was done trying to keep the lid on the story of how a still largely unidentified alliance of arms companies, the military, bits of the MoD and the intelligence services murdered a trail of people and wrecked several British companies. Appendix Nick Must commented: A search for ‘Project Babylon’ via the CIA […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* What could possibly go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a weird coincidence that the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[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 […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] All that was done trying to keep the lid on the story of how a still largely unidentified alliance of arms companies, the military, bits of the MoD and the intelligence services murdered a trail of people and wrecked several British companies. Appendix Nick Must commented: A search for ‘Project Babylon’ via the CIA […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

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 […]

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