View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the CIA.5 File under ‘All our yesterdays’. There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.6 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] as such in Leese’s 1936 publication, Our Jewish Aristocracy: A Tale of Contamination. He was a persistent advocate of the Jewish ‘blood libel’ of Jewish ritual child murder, pushing this particular antiSemitic slander as late as 1953. (p. 44) He became disillusioned with the Nazi regime at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, a […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] somewhat, being chatty, full of slang and written in ‘Americanised’ English. It also includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] illegal detention. Niedermayer’s death created an appalling legacy. In June 1990 Niedermayer’s widow Ingeborg returned to Ireland and booked into a hotel at 1 The first was Murder Madness (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999). Greystones in Co Wicklow, in the Irish Republic. It would appear that she then walked into the sea fully clothed […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] scale dumb’. (p. 107) Leaving aside the ‘been a bit sexist’ and ‘perceived to be a bit racist’, this is a remarkable development. Then comes George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Coming after and overlapping with the disgust at Trump’s response to Covid, Sopel shows dismay turning to anger – not only at […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Binney. What had happened, Binney deduced, was that the files had been downloaded locally, probably to a thumb drive.’121 Meanwhile, back at the story of the unsolved murder of DNC employee Seth Rich, argued by some to have been the leaker in the DNC: ‘Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Ratner, […]

Kincora: Britain’s shame by Chris Moore

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] by the police to investigate it and seven official inquiries were obstructed by the British state at the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his […]

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