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? […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

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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 […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] work related to Northern Ireland, where Starmer helped overturn Socialist Alternative, including Starmer’s contributions, can still be found online. 2 2 British soldier Lee Clegg’s conviction for murder. (Clegg and his fellow Paratroopers had shot up a car of joy-riders in West Belfast, an incident in which seventeen–year–old Martin Peake and eighteen–year–old Karen Reilly […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] well-respected Reverend Franklin Graham’, who made clear Islam was ‘an evil and wicked religion True Islam cannot be practiced in this country’, not least because ‘You cannot murder your children’. What is new in this volume, however, is that Rubin broadens his attack to embrace the ‘Left’, a category that includes the Democratic Party. […]

Deaths in Parliament: a legend re-examined

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] prompt me to take a proper look at a historical mystery invoked by Masood’s onslaught. Since he plainly intended to invade the House of Commons, presumably to murder as many people as possible once inside, the question arises of how deaths in Parliament are handled. There has been a rumour for many years that […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.65 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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