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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Trinidad in 1972 by accomplices of Michael de Freitas. De Freitas had a long history of criminal activity and violence and was convicted and hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Dr Kelly on which Goslett takes a self-denying ordinance. Norman Baker concludes his book with the suggestion that Dr Kelly had made enemies in Iraq and his murder might have been committed by them or people acting on their behalf. For that, to the best of my knowledge, we are also lacking corroborative evidence. […]