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. 95 31 Syndrome because, while the US is happy to fight Russia to the last dead Ukrainian, its politicians are afraid […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] and any number of James Bond movies – this version has multiple villains each with their own destructive agendas. From the possibly psychotic Putin to the deep mind of Xi Jin Ping, to Kim Jong Un and now maybe even the genocidally– minded Netanyahu, this cold war has potential nuclear dangers in many regions. […]

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

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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 […]

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. 85 28 Syndrome because, while the US is happy to fight Russia to the last dead Ukrainian, its politicians are afraid […]

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. 85 28 Syndrome because, while the US is happy to fight Russia to the last dead Ukrainian, its politicians are afraid […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] vessel’s seaworthiness, thus relaxing the Customs office’s surveillance and allowing the raiding party to escape. It is safe to say that no Customs official in their right mind would have taken the unsupported word of the boat’s owner on something so crucial. Cuban surnames follow the Spanish pattern. An individual’s surname is their father’s […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] connection to the death of Otto Warmbier Nick Must This article concerns events from the last two years that took place in North Korea (NK). Bearing in mind the secrecy that surrounds not only that country itself but also the overt (and covert) efforts of Western nations to destabilise it, some of what follows […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] to spot in today’s public services.’ The MPs’ expenses scandal, Owen Paterson, and the sunshine freebies offered to MPs and councillors by foreign governments all come to mind, not forgetting PPE contracts for pals and the rest of the moral turpitude of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. This political apprenticeship in Ayr seems to have […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] on the free market/business groups assembled around the Conservative Party’s spokespeople on the environment and economic policy, on a site that is new to me, DESMOG.uk.13 Never mind the imminent collapse of the environment, what we need is more economic freedom and less government regulation! The question that always arises with these groups is […]

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