The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Miller of the true extent of the ‘old boys network’ between the British government (or, more accurately, the British state) and banks.8 Cat and mice While Gordon Brown was on holiday in the summer the shop was being minded first by Harriet Harman and then by Peter Mandelson. Mandy did his annual hanging-out in […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence.43 And yet barely […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence.23 And yet barely […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] voices and put faces to the names I 8 What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander Who really won the space race? Thom Burnett both London: Collis and Brown, £8.99, p/b These are two of the first batch of a new series, Conspiracy Books. Which might lead you to suspect you’d get a conspiracy or […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] These are serious questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: ‘They’re looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of huge international […]

Misc reviews

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[…] a major piece of work by any standards. What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander 10 Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b Thom Burnett both London: Collis and Brown, £8.99, p/b These are two of the first batch of a new series, Conspiracy Books. Which might lead you to suspect you’d get a conspiracy or […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] saying a sharp shooter in a hotel overlooking the White House could pick JFK off in the garden, and he even names a possible assassin, a Jack Brown (who he?). Had Milteer described some unique way of killing JFK and had that transpired, then his statement would have carried some weight, but it doesn’t. […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] their peers’. (pp. 1-2) And so on. This is just so The book under review here is the latest in a series of volumes that started with Brown at 10 (2010) and continued with Cameron at 10 (2015), May at 10 (2019) and now Johnson at 10. Will the next volume have to combine […]

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