Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him of being the ‘paymaster’ in the alleged murder conspiracy.28 After Thorpe was replaced by David Steel in 1976 (and particularly once the Lib-Lab pact was in force), Hayward divorced himself completely from any involvement […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Bureau employees doing what Shanklin had done would have, at best, been terminated. At worst, that employee could have been prosecuted for destruction of documents in a murder investigation, i.e. the Oswald letter and its tie-in to the Kennedy assassination. Of Shanklin, Mr Adams notes: ‘The man was scared of his own shadow’. (p. […]