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

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[…] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]

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 […]

Also noticed

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[…] Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] recent decades very much a minority position among European Jews.”   “it is an internalisation of gentile anti-Semitism, with which it has collaborated, including in the mass murder of Jews, such as in the Holocaust, by real anti-Semites.”   “far from being a pro-Jewish stance, Zionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries was […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

View from 92

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[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

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