The View from the Bridge

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[…] operation involving planted information; deception of the British and authorised personnel; attacks on individuals which do nothing to advance the fight against terrorism.’ 7 * new * Mind control Muckrock is a website devoted to FOIA requests in the USA. It recently had a story headed: ‘Washington State Fusion Centre accidentally releases records on […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to an ad hoc panel to examine the question of how some material still held by the National Archives should be declassified with the FOI Act in mind. Mr Brown had put his finger deftly on the point that had alarmed Mr Blair in 2005, and to which Mr Blair only confessed in his […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the much bruited morale and good humour of the little English people in their slums – ‘never mind, dear, put on the kettle and we’ll have a nice cup of tea’1 – under the impact of Blitzkrieg. That’s the popular British version. The saturation […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of ‘crass assassination plots’.2 Which is an odd way of describing what had happened, as the Merriam-Webster definition of crass is ‘having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination’.3 Indeed, leading figures from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) would have it very differently. Speaking a month after the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 or . 25 One attempted […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] incidents. These came as one-offs or in waves. They stopped as quickly as they started, only to kick off again just as a semblance of peace of mind was being restored. Although largely invisible to mainstream Britain, the fear and hysteria this engendered within the Iraqi community and those associated with it was beyond […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been a slow news day when the newspapers put on their front pages the fact that the Labour Party had hired a former Obama strategist to master mind their forthcoming election campaign. Of course they looked to America. Where else? As these columns have reported ad nauseam for nearly twenty years, the Labour Party […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[…] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. One last example of Stiglitz’s divorce from reality. He is still banging the tired old comparative advantage […]

View from the 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 or . 25 One attempted […]

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