Newsinger on Patel

Lobster Issue

[…] their incompetence ‘Chairman Mark Milley and Centcom Commander Kenneth Mackenzie used a drone to execute seven children and thirteen innocent Afghan civilians. That’s not America. We don’t murder innocent children to cover our political asses’. (pp. 159, 163, 166). This suggests an astonishing ignorance of US conduct across much of the world over the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.54 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 […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Supervisory Board of the Kimmel brewery, and also the co-owner in the investment company Maval Aktivi.” Maksim Bakiyev has been convicted in Kyrgyzstan of ordering the attempted murder of the British businessman Sean Daley who was gunned down in a street in Kyrgyzstan in 2006 when acting as a mediator in a dispute about […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] had been shot in Oak Cliff’.8 So: both the Dallas officers photographed escorting the ‘tramps’ said in 1977 that they had done so before news of the murder of Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15 pm.9 But the photographs of the ‘tramps’ being marched through the centre of Dallas show very long shadows […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 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? […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

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 […]

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