Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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* 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 […]

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* 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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 40 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . 41 42 14 Cold War 3 The new Cold War is now established. And just as in […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] strict. But in Britain the situation was different. Every type of military equipment could be exported provided it had a governmentapproved ‘end user certificate’ supplied by the MoD. The British were ordered to get round the UN and Parliamentary ban by supplying false ‘end user certificates’. These were drawn up by Mr James Taylor, […]

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