Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is a phantom, and it will enslave us.’ Further asides which may whet the appetite of the assiduous Lobster readers are the references to the interventions of JFK in 1963 to prevent the growth of offshore. He had put down legislation to crack down on deferred taxation. ‘The corporate community went ape-shit.’ JFK had […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] as a lot of speculation. The author’s analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed Mark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on his […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his eligibility. Birtherism was not just used against Obama! The ultimate strike against Cruz, however, was the National Enquirer front page headline ‘TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION’. Once again, Trump claimed to have nothing to do with this story being run, but once it was out there took relentless advantage of it. […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] domain was established and funded. See or . 26 These activities were the subject of enquiries by the FBI that were later exhibited in the US government’s JFK assassination archive. See . 27 The Hayward story – moving away from UK manufacturing to off-shore financial dealings – is effectively a microcosm of what would […]

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to come’. The premises were later famous/ notorious as the Vivienne Westwood/Malcolm McLaren boutique SEX. 5 Ambassador to the US 1961-1965, and an exceptionally close friend to JFK and his brothers – so close that he proposed marriage to the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968. What with Mary Pinchot Meyer passing through as well, […]

Shirley Williams

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[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]

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