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 Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] mass destruction’ lies as examples of Leftist dishonesty. The vector for this contamination was apparently Dominic Cummings, a man much influenced by the example of the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control. Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters.3 On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]

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