View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.7 This essay shows that it was members of far right and neo- Nazi Ukrainian groups which did the Maidan massacre, leading to the resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kick the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must for proof-reading help with some of this edition of Lobster. Grauniadia I received this from a correspondent of mine. A link I sent some of you yesterday morning was to a short Guardian beneath the line (BTL) comment I made in response to a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 58 59 See or . 60 Discussed below under subhead ‘Integrity, the City and “leave”’. 61 Simkin closes his essay with a quote from Hannah Arendt about Nazi Germany which is chillingly apt for today’s world in which shysters like Trump and Johnson have ascended the greasy pole. ‘In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] for the very weird prisoner introduced as Rudolf Hess, at his insistence standing up and without pain killing injection. Later I had access to the full official Nazi party medical records for the real Rudolf Hess, going back to his gunshot wounds in WW1. They showed that he had lost his upper left molar […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] old schisms created by Henry VIII (Protestantism vs Catholicism), and the triumphalist religious right-wing forces in America (who escaped from Old Europe). This is dangerous territory, with Nazi echoes of Blood and Honour being deeply embedded in the culture. It is no coincidence that the EU was specifically designed to move away from such […]

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