Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bystanders, the police officers, and the railroad men (principally S. M. Holland and Lee Bowers). Worthy stuff, but hasn’t this been done before? Does he bring anything new to the discussion? Not that I can see. Then there’s a demolishing of Luis Alvarez and his watermelons and the ‘jet effect’ (JFK’s head is forced […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

view from bridge

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[…] Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who k new no economics. John Hoskyns, a businessman recruited to join the Thatcher team as Head of the Policy Unit, records in his memoir: I had been concerned […]

1976 anmd all that

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[…] regular columnists is Daniel Finkelstein. Lord Finkelstein, as he is now, has been around the upper reaches of the centre and latterly the centre–right of British politics for 40 years and is thus one of the architects of the disastrous mess the UK is in. In his column of 17 April, ‘Truss’s excuse sounds […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] little background . . . Two years ago I was conducting research on stay-behind networks in post WWII Europe – the infamous ‘Gladio’ networks. I already k new that the Western Union Clandestine Committee (WUCC) had played an important part in the establishment of those networks and I was intrigued to find some WUCC […]

The secret library of Georges Armoulian by Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] stated when Frewin’s preface is headed by a quotation allegedly from FBI taps on the phone of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, in which he is discussing the new novel by Joan Didion. ‘Preface? What’s with these fucking prefaces? They’re all at it. You know I don’t like the fucking things. I say what I’m […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] out by undercover police officers, such as Mark Jenner, from the Special Demonstration Squad, who are now the subject of the Undercover Policing Inquiry.7 A team from New Statesman, including Duncan Campbell, was the first to cover this in depth with ‘The MI5 affair: can the spooks be trusted?’, 5 December 1986 (archived online […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] why did they support the EU? In The Sunday Times of 14 June 2009 Bojan Pancevski and Robert Watts had a story which began: ’Glenys Kinnock, the new minister for Europe, has amassed six publicly funded pensions worth £185,000 per year with her husband Neil, the former leader of the Labour party. They have […]

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