The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (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 […]

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 […]

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

[…] . or 58 59 See or . 60 into the mainstream media until Hammond’s striking intervention.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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] he referred to a panel chaired by one Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs from 2001-2009. Dobriansky, wrote Kuzmarov, is ‘the daughter of an ally of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’. or 69 Some of the original documents involved have been declassified and can be seen at or 70 22 Stealing the 2020 presidential […]

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