NOTES from the BORDERLAND

Welcome to Britain's premier para-political investigative magazine Notes from the Borderland (NFB). We have been publishing the magazine since 1997 but produced some published material before then.

Our political perspective is Left/Green, but we welcome truth-tellers, whatever their affiliation. Research interests include the secret state (MI5/MI6/SO15 formerly Special Branch) & their assets, including those in the media. We are resolutely anti-fascist, and to that end investigate the far right and state infiltration of various milieus. In a shallow age where many TV programmes and print/internet stories are spoon-fed to servile journalists/bloggers by shadowy interests, NFB stands out as genuine investigative research.  To find out more click on the Shop, & peruse information about each issue. Also check out Steve Booth's article 'Ten Years of Notes From the Borderland', below the list of magazines you find there.  All this requires mental effort on your part--but don't let that stop you!  So confident are we that NFB is worth subscribing to, visit the Shop (link above) and don't forget to look at our special offers. Take a chance--you won't be disappointed...

To republish anything on this site contact us first  for permission - we will usually grant it for non-profit organisations, other requests will be looked at on a case by case basis.   "Quotation is fine, plagiarism isn't" (Agent Q RIP).

We are always on the look out for

a) information, especially if backed up by verifiable documentation: in the first instance email nfbmagazineatyahoodotcodotuk. Our real mail address is BM Box 4769 London WC1N 3XX

b) interesting articles by new writers, whether for the magazine or this site: check out our Notes for Contributors

c) exchanges with other publications: contact us to discuss.  We know our enemies quite rightly (from their perspective) will deny us the oxygen of publicity, but welcome reviews/mentions from others. Happy to send review copies.

d) this magazine certainly isn't a money-making venture, but we are philosophically and politically committed to a hard-copy product, and very pleased our production values have finally (as of issue 12) reached our goal. But to sustain this we need lots more sales/subscribers (and/or donations: more £=more frequent appearance!). Become a subscriber if you aren't already. Your life will never be the same and you will wonder why you ever found The Guardian interesting....

e) A final point about the site: like a much-loved country house set in beautiful but partly neglected parkland we are fully aware some articles (and images) need updating/finessing. But we are getting there, as many have remarked already. To access a veritable cornucopia of intriguing analysis, click on any/all of the subject category boxes either below, or to the right of this missive or even at the bottom of the home page. All a question of perspective. Like many things in life, it depends on your starting point. Bear with us, and help 'The Project'--you know it makes sense...


Blue Sky vs Twitter/X: the NFB Perspective

Anushka Asthana ‘Taken As Red’ Harper North 2024 £22 reviewed by Larry O’Hara

Hidden In Plain Sight: a critique of MI5 Director General Ken McCallum’s threat update 8/10/24: by Notes From the Borderland magazine 12/10/24

NFB NOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: HELP US OUT!


IN & AGAINST THE INTERNET / AGAINST AI

Blue Sky vs Twitter/X: the NFB Perspective

by Verona Silenda & Larry O’Hara 2/1/25 Digital civil war is rife. Cyber-attacks by Russia China North Korea & even before that by the US/their British poodle (check out James Risen's books if you doubt the last points). Not forgetting straightforward crooks. All very true. However, here we are thinking…

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NFB NOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: HELP US OUT!

NFB IN & AGAINST THE INTERNET?

Wikipedia: A Digital Cess-Pit by Heidi Svenson

CONTRA EX MACHINA: AI & OTHER VIRTUAL PERILS by Verona Silenda (extract from NFB magazine issue 12)


CULTWATCHING ARTICLES

CULTWATCHING: THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION OF OUR SITE

1) A source of critical comment and resources--send us ideas on such, and new section suggestions. We do not intend to be a comprehensive 9/11 (or 7/7) resource, but a signpost directing you to appropriate information. 2) A spur to debate on our parallel site where we welcome crossing swords…

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DAVID ICKE: THE FRAUD CONTINUES

J7 CAMPAIGN: A REPLY

PETER DALE SCOTT: INTERESTING BUT FLAWED

DUNCAN ON CONSPIRACY THEORY & THE 9/11 CULT


FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM ARTICLES

INTRODUCTION TO FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM

While we would never reduce the NFB project to anti-fascism there is no doubt such is a key component to our politics, and has been since the beginning.  For us the label fascist has to be used carefully, and precisely, not as a mere term of abuse for those whose politics or…

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MATTHEW FELDMAN ON THE UK FAR RIGHT: A VAUDEVILLE PROFESSOR? by Dr Larry O’Hara

The Soho Nail-Bombing Scandal Revisited: NFB Pamphlet #2

Book Review: Aurelien Mondon & Aaron Winter ‘Reactionary Democracy’ Verso 2020

NETFLIX Documentary Nail-bomber: Manhunt. NFB Declaration of interest


JOURNALISM / SPIJ WATCH ARTICLES

Our interest in journalists, & the concept of SPIJ

Even before the magazine started, collective members had a long-standing interest in the dire standards of  'investigative journalism' in this country.  In particular, the way some journalists recycle information (and disinformation) from 'official sources'.  In the case of political journalists this is patently obvious--witness the way Nick Robinson, Andrew Marr,…

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SPIJ: DEFINED & DECONSTRUCTED

The Soho Nail-Bombing Scandal Revisited: NFB Pamphlet #2

NETFLIX Documentary Nail-bomber: Manhunt. NFB Declaration of interest

LARRY O’HARA RADIO INTERVIEW 22-8-2020


LAST CENTURY LEFT AND BEYOND ARTICLES

Anushka Asthana ‘Taken As Red’ Harper North 2024 £22 reviewed by Larry O’Hara

This review originally appeared in the November edition of Labour Left magazine Labour Briefing: to subscribe visit https://labourbriefingcooperative.net/ This is the first book to cover Starmer’s victory in the election, written by an ITV political correspondent working for that cesspit of banal irrelevance the Peston Show, who was granted privileged…

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The Starmer/Reeves Project: A View From the Left by Larry O’Hara published in Labour Briefing August/September 2024

‘Seizing The Power’: A Still-Relevant 1979 Big Flame Document on Revolutionary Strategy

LAST CENTURY LEFT & BEYOND

‘Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn’ by Asa Winstanley reviewed by Larry O’Hara OR Books £13.29 (published in Labour Briefing March 2024)


SEARCHLIGHT / HOPE NOT HATE / CARR ARTICLES

SEARCHLIGHT / HOPE NOT HATE /THE COUNTER-EXTREMISM RACKET

Scattered across this site, and in more detail in this section, you will find various references to Searchlight (the magazine/related organisation) and their former front campaign, 'Hope Not Hate' (hereafter HNH). Mostly, these references are critical--and given we are resolutely anti-fascist, that might strike some as strange, contradicting our aims.…

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The Soho Nail-Bombing Scandal Revisited: NFB Pamphlet #2

About Nick Lowles ‘Codename Arthur’ (2021) With Special Reference To Vile Personal Attacks Therein (Larry O’Hara 4/5/24)

Mirrors Smashed, The Smoke Begins to Clear: Chief Clown Matthew Feldman Exits The CARR Circus

NETFLIX Documentary Nail-bomber: Manhunt. NFB Declaration of interest


SECRET STATE ARTICLES

Hidden In Plain Sight: a critique of MI5 Director General Ken McCallum’s threat update 8/10/24: by Notes From the Borderland magazine 12/10/24

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum on 8/10/24 gave his latest update on the current national security threats facing the UK. This is NFB’s initial holding response: only quotes in bold italics are taken from his speech as reproduced on the MI5 website. The sub-headings are entirely ours. INTRODUCTION Elizabeth I’s…

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THE SECRET STATE

SHAYLER versus O’HARA: THE DEBATE ON MI5

LARRY O’HARA RADIO INTERVIEW 22-8-2020

NFB CONTRIBUTOR DR PAUL STOTT ON BRITISH JIHADISM


WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US – Introduction

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US In this deracinated age, serious thought and analysis is often drowned out by the babble of trolls and transient fads.  It is too easy, when encountering serious thought, to just walk on by, especially if it is critical.  In our media and celebrity-obsessed age, many…

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About Nick Lowles ‘Codename Arthur’ (2021) With Special Reference To Vile Personal Attacks Therein (Larry O’Hara 4/5/24)

THIS READER LIKES US!

LOBSTER MAGAZINE REVIEWS NFB ISSUE 11

FASCIST VIEWPOINT – THESE NEO-NAZIS DON’T LIKE US?


LINKS

LINKS SECTION: INTRODUCED AND EXPLAINED

LINKS SECTION: INTRODUCED & EXPLAINED Discerning readers we want to encourage, for the off-line real world magazine, and this site. To paraphrase John Donne, no virtual user is an island, so too no site exists in isolation, even this one....While respecting their intentions & spirit, we are not Luddites, and…

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LINKS INTRODUCED AND EXPLAINED: CHECK IT OUT/SEND US YOUR SUGGESTIONS

ANTI-FASCIST LINKS AND RESOURCES

INTERNET-AWARE LINKS AND RESOURCES

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