View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Soviet Union, got off a million-to-one shot in Dallas. He acted alone. Or he was an instrument of a conspiracy so immense that it staggers the mind.’ In the first place Oswald wasn’t ‘trained as a sharpshooter’ by the Marines. Like all Marines, he was trained to fire a rifle. But had Mr […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] from his own experience at pre-1914 Cambridge and then as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, that people knew and felt goodness, leading to ‘good states of mind’, at various times in their lives, whether in the form of – for example – personal affection, beauty or pleasure in great art and literature. This […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] an MI5 document written in 1975, i.e. the job specification document. Why was Mr Calcutt prevented from having access to the full job justification document, bearing in mind that it was specifically requested by the MoD (Dept. ASD2) before approval was given for my appointment? It should also be noted that I had previously […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the Soviet Union, got off a million-to-one shot in Dallas. He acted alone. Or he was an instrument of a conspiracy so immense that it staggers the mind.’ In the first place Oswald wasn’t ‘trained as a sharpshooter’ by the Marines. Like all Marines, he was trained to fire a rifle. But had Mr […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] from his own experience at pre-1914 Cambridge and then as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, that people knew and felt goodness, leading to ‘good states of mind’, at various times in their lives, whether in the form of – for example – personal affection, beauty or pleasure in great art and literature. This […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] which supported her and not imitate Heath’s ‘u-turn’ in 1972. Since her economic policies were having serious unforeseen negative consequences, rationally she should have been changing her mind; politically she could not do so. On the other hand Labour did borrow too much, and borrowed it expensively – just think of the stupid PFI […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at 8 or . 3 only […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Broderick on 13 May 1985, but in his record of that interview there is no mention of the document’s existence. That appears to be inexplicable, bearing in mind its obvious significance to the RUC investigation. Moreover, although Peter Broderick informed RUC DI Cooke that my superior officer in Psy Ops was Colonel Geoffrey Hutton, […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

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