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 […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] which a Coulter® blood count was performed on December 15th, 1982.’ 7 In 1982 particles in blood could be counted and sized on American- Hugh Thomas, The Murder of Rudolf Hess, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979) and Hess: A Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988). 6 7 See footnote 3. designed […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] expert to see the fallacy of the singlebullet theory.’ A more recent essay by Denton, ‘Joan Mellen did not debunk the idea of LBJ’s complicity in the murder of JFK’ does what its title suggests it will and includes this: ‘Gordon Ferrie 48 spoke of the conspiracy against Kennedy as a “nexus”, a series […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]

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