Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] vessel’s seaworthiness, thus relaxing the Customs office’s surveillance and allowing the raiding party to escape. It is safe to say that no Customs official in their right mind would have taken the unsupported word of the boat’s owner on something so crucial. Cuban surnames follow the Spanish pattern. An individual’s surname is their father’s […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Postal Inspector Harry Holmes, he ended up taking part in Oswald’s interrogation on the morning of Sunday 24 November 1963 purely by happenstance. He supposedly changed his mind about going to church at 9.30am and made his way to Dallas Police HQ instead, where Captain Will Fritz unexpectedly invited him into the interrogation room. […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] on the free market/business groups assembled around the Conservative Party’s spokespeople on the environment and economic policy, on a site that is new to me, DESMOG.uk.13 Never mind the imminent collapse of the environment, what we need is more economic freedom and less government regulation! The question that always arises with these groups is […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] to spot in today’s public services.’ The MPs’ expenses scandal, Owen Paterson, and the sunshine freebies offered to MPs and councillors by foreign governments all come to mind, not forgetting PPE contracts for pals and the rest of the moral turpitude of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. This political apprenticeship in Ayr seems to have […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] for faint hearts. It has much of the challenging force of those German anti-Nazis – Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Fritz Reck-Malleczewen are two names who come readily to mind – who steadfastly marked out the ground in earlier battles for rights, decency and integrity in a disordered world. Tom Easton is a freelance writer. 145 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] at Halfpenny Green Airfield, Staffordshire. Thirty seconds after takeoff, witnesses saw the prince’s plane ‘drop out of the sky’ and explode on 8 It is to my mind plausible that the disease itself is the actual origin and ‘calling card’ of European royal houses (royals being jocularly known in Britain as having ‘blue blood’), […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] (George Robertson was selected and elected instead) and also declined Leith when a last minute vacancy arose in February 1979 (he was unable to make up his mind). The seat went instead to Ron Brown.9 With hindsight these were clearly significant miscalculations. Although Callaghan duly took Labour down to an arguably unnecessary defeat by […]