The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] . 49 Christopher Ketcham wrote about this in 2010 in his essay at . which was redacted by MI5 prior to publication, has been published in Counter Spy by Simon Tomlin.5 0 In that section Machon reports that a source in MI5 she calls Swallow Tail told her and her then partner David Shayler […]

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[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]

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[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] to the energy-security industry, they may also have a 18 Caryle Murphy, ‘Wikileaks Reveals Saudi Efforts to Threaten Iran’, 29 November 2010. 19 Kim Zetter, ‘NOKIA Seimens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in Bahrain’, Wired: Threat Level, 23 August 2011; and Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room: ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 […]

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[…] a new book about the death of the Labour MP Bob Cryer: Killing Cryer: The Life and Mysterious Death of a British MP Who Exposed America’s Secret Spy Base.8 Dr. Roger Cottrell is a kind of Lobster fellow-traveller, as a search for his name on this site will show. He now has a ‘substack’ […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of Commons on 8 December, Channon writes ‘Russia saved the government in July; now Japan will do likewise’. He had enough political sense to know 25 Hitler’s Spy Chief (London: Pegasus, 2013) pp. 213-216 Replacing him with Richard Law, Conservative MP for Kingston upon Hull SW and son of Andrew Bonar Law. A right-wing […]

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