Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he was (unwittingly) involved in this conspiracy at four points. He was actually with Lee Harvey Oswald in the incident when Oswald handed out pro-Castro leaflets in New Orleans; he’d been sent down by his CIA contact to give the reluctant Oswald a hand. He claims he is in one of the photographs of […]

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] general election was bitterly fought. Liz Davies was originally chosen when an all-women shortlist had been used, but this news was greeted with utter dismay by the new elite running the party – an elite from that part of Islington which didn’t correspond to Jeremy Corbyn’s. (I surmise at this point that Jeremy and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘ New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs – and read this short statement of their central belief. The IEA and its ilk sought: ‘perfect competition […]

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] exposure of outfits like Cambridge Analytica, the shady background of leave campaign finances and the huge growth in social media political messaging. Geoghegan doesn’t offer any particularly new facts or insights beyond what a reasonably attentive follower of serious news outlets may have garnered but his book does put the jigsaw pieces together very […]

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