The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] paid a heavier price than most”. The fact he had no such contacts was clear to me in 1981, when Searchlight obtained evidence of a planned neo- Nazi bomb attack on the Notting Hill carnival in London, and Gerry and I had to use a convoluted route through a friendly journalist to get the […]

Newsinger on KItson

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[…] Winston Churchill donating £25. This was all part of the attempted Cold War rehabilitation of the German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly enough, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] process. After 1933-34 unemployment in the USA and the UK did start to fall and recovery became evident in much of Europe by the mid-1930s. But ( Nazi Germany being an exception) high levels of joblessness continued to exist and activity was erratic. Contemporary economic theory Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1845), Marxist Internet […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: 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 piece by Labour MP Jess […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to accelerate the rebuilding of the West with surplus resources from the undamaged USA to demonstrate that the Soviet Union could not deliver (after having single-handedly defeated Nazi Germany) the quality of life that the US would offer.13 The Marshall Plan was also economic promotion for US capital which made money, selling to Western […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.20 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 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] for and it seems churlish not to mention them. I have Richard Griffiths, What did you do during the war? The last throes of the British pro- Nazi Right, 1940-45; Philip M Coupland, Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks; Colin Holmes, Searching for Lord Haw-Haw; and Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Marketing the Third […]

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