Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] one of the factors that pushed ‘me away from government service’ (p. 91). After more than twenty years in MI6, Steele retired and set up a private intelligence agency, Orbis. What Steele wants us to believe is that somehow Orbis was a force for good. In fact, the outfit seems to have started out […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] le Carré’s cunning plan? Andrew Rosthorn In the July 1982 foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘ intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]

Chris Hani book

Lobster Issue

[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] cover might stand for. National Archives staff were able to offer no solution. D/CIA was of course the official designation of the Director of the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency, who in 1986 would have been William J Casey (died 1987). At the time, the office was designated DCI (Director of Central Intelligence), until finally […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Not so here, though various individuals are identified as the narrative proceeds. These are ultra-rich preppers – people who have considered climate change, population growth and Artificial Intelligence, and the consequences these – especially the last – may have for human existence on the planet. They also possess, in Rushkoff’s words, ‘the Mindset’. Namely, […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

Chris Hani book copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly, with the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; nor […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] that when a man has taken as many steps as possible to be identified as a woman, they are a woman. The famous Turing Test for artificial intelligence is probably the modern era’s best-known Nominalist concept. It isn’t concerned with whether a machine is really conscious and self-aware, only with whether it makes sense […]

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