Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] left-wingers, whom Lacerda accused of being crypto-communists. In 1954, Lacerda had stirred up such controversy against President Getúlio Vargas28 that one of Vargas’s inner circle tried to murder Lacerda. Three weeks later, with the scandal closing in on him, Vargas committed In the event, Kennedy’s Democrats lost four seats in the House and gained […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Nic in his flat and elsewhere were not in his handwriting. On 4 July that year, Katrina Taylor – a 19-year-old mother who had herself played a murder victim on BBC television’s ‘Crimewatch UK’ – was found stabbed to death in a graveyard in nearby Brighton. This time, the forces of darkness were all-too-earthbound […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt to murder Gaddafy by bombing after the Berlin La Belle night club attack in which American soldiers died. Ashton does not devote much of his book to the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Guest More, 68, a millionaire jailed at Chester Crown Court for nine months in 2004 for helping his son to escape to Spain after the torture and murder of a cannabis farmer in Cheshire. His son, also known as Christopher Guest More, had been working for the BBC as a fixer and investigator on […]