Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] martyrdom? Some insiders think so.’ 17 Powers widened the scope of this: ‘. . . behind these suspicions, never resolved, lay a still darker fear in the mind of Robert Kennedy: that he himself, if any of the four had been established as the guilty party, could not have escaped at least some measure […]

Ian Cameron (obituary)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of a separate (1997) Angry Brigade volume by Tom Vague. This is the most remarkable of the book’s new items. At moments this brought Ali G to mind. Barker writes with obvious 1 2 This originally appeared in newsletter of the Kate Sharpley Library. 3 1 and very welcome sincerity that the Angry Brigade, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] wrote while in prison. Ruby implies that reading the book would explain JFK’s assassination. Extracts are quoted on p. 604 of Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ The Master mind of JFK’s Assassination (Xlibris, 2010). This was reviewed in Lobster 61 at or 4 or 5 Had Monbiot gone a step further he could have mentioned […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lost source as the Q-Diary for convenience.5 Enter Epstein Under what circumstances did the Q-Diary get redrafted into the manuscript we know today? This question exercised the mind of assassination researcher Edward Jay Epstein in the 1970s as he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] ‘affordable’ colour-changing fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] force, whilst remaining outside the single market, implies importing a substantial workforce from countries further afield than Europe. Perhaps this is what she and Starmer have in mind. 13 Part of which is the continued belief that the UK has one of the richest economies in the world. Frequently described as being the ‘5th […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (combined with the failure to find any of the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that had been used to justify the invasion) tainted Iraq irredeemably in the public mind. Back home, the political scene is viewed through the lens less of the big parties and of ‘Westminster bubble’ stories than by telling the stories of […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] things would work, then he would try them and see. Failure would be down to the patient; success was his alone. What was his theory of the mind? (Though theory might dignify and elevate his thinking, such as it was.) It was quite simple and, shorn of psychiatric and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed […]

President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] chess master Natan Sharansky, or writer Alexander Solshenitsyn, once household names in the West but neither of whom are ‘celebrities’ in the West today. Also keep in mind that this is a two-way generational phenomenon. Young Eastern Europeans have absolutely no memory of Communism or the former Soviet system any more than Western ones […]

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