The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because he was a convicted fraudster. Precisely what his fraud was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report The Immaculate Deception3 ‘proving’ massive fraud. This, of course, made it unequivocably true; but anyone who pointed out that the election was being stolen found themselves facing ‘the Cancel Culture wrath of […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] was doing and had probably been asked to run by a third party. Sedgemore denounced Betts and his actions in a House of Commons debate on electoral fraud on 21 May 1997.1 3 But who asked Betts to run? It looked like an inside job: but was it just another manifestation of chaotic Hackney […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] wealth by the pastors who advocated the doctrine. They generally extracted their personal wealth from their congregations by the exploitation of the crudest superstition and by straightforward fraud. And, while the superstition might look back to the Middle Ages, the methods used to exploit it were very up to date – with the various […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it came time for Mr Justice Tucker to sentence Mrs Forsyth, her 89 year-old mother and her […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it came time for Mr Justice Tucker to sentence Mrs Forsyth, her 89 year-old mother and her […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] joint MI5/MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. He fled the UK and in 1993 was in the Turkish part of Cyprus which was beyond the reach of formal international law.3 The MI5/6 plan […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] National Union of Teachers in the early 1980s to take on such choice Thatcher or 1 2 This is detailed at great length in Paul Holden’s The Fraud (London: OR Books, 2025). It is summarised here or . 3 1 favourites as Sir Keith Joseph and Sir Rhodes Boyson. This was just a few […]

Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] dictum becomes this: There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. Fraud and deception are entirely acceptable. Just don’t get caught. To cite the obvious recent examples: car-making companies fabricating their exhaust figures,108 Boeing trying to influence The […]

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