The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] who had contact with the CPGB,42 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame Jefferson Morley takes […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] produced evidence that fundamentally undermined the FBI’s case against Ivins. MacQueen tells us that newspaper picture editor Stevens was a very old friend of the Florida estate agent who found homes for some of the alleged 9/11 plane hijackers. This is one of a large series of coincidences he cites in support of his […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] a single instance of anti-Semitism; and given my experience perhaps I should have. As the Labour Party organiser in Leeds in the 1990s, and the full time agent for the Jewish Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Leeds North East, Fabian Hamilton, I might reasonably have expected to hear something unpleasant. Following the Blairite ascendency, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] by faith alone – one adopted by the entire US political class and deeply held to this day. In the English-speaking world, mainstream journalism is the principal agent of what Orwell called ‘the thought police’ . CIA: the ministry of love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true […]

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