Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – reminding potential readers that there was still much to enjoy in the rural US, such as vinyl record stores 12 Thorpe was cleared of conspiracy to murder a former homosexual lover. No charges for this offence were ever brought against any third party. and welcome revival of Southern food.13 Yes: but does this […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[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. […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] led him to set up a parliamentary inquiry headed by Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] He’s impressed by what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself.’ Meyer’s 1964 murder remains unsolved. 4 Michael Rainey ran a clothes shop, Hung on You, at 430 Kings Road SW10, described by music journalist Nik Cohn as ‘simultaneously the […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] warmly welcoming his neighbour Starmer as Labour’s new leader – ‘my wife likes his wife’ – Coren describes Corbyn as ‘an apologist for race hate at home, murder abroad and political tyranny from Damascus to the Kremlin’. Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, et al. […]

lob65-pope-francis

Lobster Issue

[…] or celebrities: i.e. no recognisable brand. As importantly, backed by the rise of South America, it gives global Christianity an economic and political power base that challenges murder emanating from minute pockets of some Muslim communities – while accelerating and embracing dialogue with Islam in general whose only figureheads in the West happen to […]

Accessibility Toolbar