The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’44 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis: ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money . . . Property prices have […]

‘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 […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] were deterred from serving under Trump by his lying and bullying, nor by his his racism and misogyny. They completely overlooked his well-known reputation for dishonesty and fraud. They were blind to his rallying of the Tea Party, the Christian Right and the US Far Right which brought along neo-Nazi, white supremacist, KKK and […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] producer David B. Charnay was indicted (and separately sued by the SEC) with Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes, and a top Hughes lawyer on charges of stock manipulation, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the 1968 purchase of Air West, though the indictment was subsequently dismissed by a federal judge who called the alleged behavior […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] But as I have discussed ad nauseam in these columns, the JFK researchers ignore Holt because they have persuaded themselves – wrongly – that he was a fraud. The JFK researchers should start taking Holt seriously and follow the leads he provided. Never mind CIA files which may or may not actually exist; and […]

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 […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] demonstrated his absolute dominance to his domestic enemies. He was also confident that his Western allies would not be the slightest bit concerned about such blatant electoral fraudfraud that was accompanied by widespread repression and intimidation. Indeed, in 2010, he gave himself 93.8% of the Presidential election vote and in 2017 no […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’4 2 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis:4 3 ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money…… ……Property prices have escalated way […]

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