View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a part of this, and in consultation with the serving Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, John Hermon, it was decided […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time Tara member Roy […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Infowars is getting a White House press pass.18 Who’s next? David Icke? Spooks ahoy! And there is the delicious if faintly ridiculous story of the Cambridge University Intelligence Seminar, one of whose convenors was Professor Christopher Andrew, the British spooks’ favourite tame academic. One of the commercial sponsors – to the tune of about […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] for The New York Review of Books and can be found talking about Arnhem, the United Nations and issues of peace and war.5 Urquhart was the chief intelligence officer of the British Airborne Division in 1944 under the command of Major General Frederick – ‘Boy’ – Browning. The second stimulus came through a Polish […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that day.15 Complicity The failure to toughen sanctions on arms exports to Israel is not accidental. It stems from an unwillingness to sever close UK-Israel military and intelligence links which have played an important role in the Gaza conflict. Three examples of these connections stand out. First of all, there is the role played […]

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