The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] illegal detention. Niedermayer’s death created an appalling legacy. In June 1990 Niedermayer’s widow Ingeborg returned to Ireland and booked into a hotel at 1 The first was Murder Madness (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999). Greystones in Co Wicklow, in the Irish Republic. It would appear that she then walked into the sea fully clothed […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] scale dumb’. (p. 107) Leaving aside the ‘been a bit sexist’ and ‘perceived to be a bit racist’, this is a remarkable development. Then comes George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Coming after and overlapping with the disgust at Trump’s response to Covid, Sopel shows dismay turning to anger – not only at […]

Kicora review

Lobster Issue

[…] to investigate it and seven official inquiries, all of which were obstructed by the British state at the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] found murdered, in what was later proved to be a staged suicide. The serving prosecutor-general at the time opened a case on Kolomoisky in relation to the murder of Serhiy Nikitin, but found insufficient evidence to proceed. On the other hand, Kolomoisky has openly threatened the President of Georgia, telling one journalist during an […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] ever existed. His reaction to this disagreement has been an intriguing mix of aggressive, passive aggressive and straight-up hippy – e.g. ‘People who try to cover up murder will be murdered under karma. Judgement Day is 22 August 2021. Love Dave.’10 As a kindly friend mentioned to me, ‘Obviously no-one could possibly have a […]

Kicora review

Lobster Issue

[…] to investigate it and seven official inquiries, all of which were obstructed by the British state at the behest of MI5; and Colin Wallace was framed for murder for trying to expose it. There are four main threads to this book. Moore was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland and one theme is his […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] history of strange behaviour by leading LibDems and members of its pre1988 Liberal Party.28 After the bizarre Liberal Party world was revealed by the 1979 Jeremy Thorpe murder trial – the activities of Peter Bessell and the hired gunman among others – the Liberals relied heavily on Cyril Smith as the party’s popular public […]

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