Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English think they are wise […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.23 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] been feted in Washington, welcomed ‘to the Pentagon with an honor cordon’, even though his corruption was well-known and it was even feared he might stage a coup to seize power for himself. He ‘did little to hide his involvement in drug trafficking’ and, according to an interview with Col. Russell Thaden, the NATO […]

The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] – might want answered. In a nutshell, there is ample evidence that what can be truly described as a conspiracy took place, which gave birth to a coup. The right in the party’s only response now is ‘the left hasn’t learnt any lessons. It’s time to move on’. The problem for the triumphant right […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;4 0 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.4 1 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.23 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] country and successfully routed the revolutionary Red Menace both within and without. Not only were the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]

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