South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]

View from Bridge 87pdf

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[…] taken in Dallas on or 3 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it here because Robert Morrow6 has reminded his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the […]

View from the Bridge 87

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[…] 1 Dallas again This is one of the famous ‘three tramps’ photographs taken in Dallas on 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 there is one other sentence worth noting. During a visit to the Vatican […]

Climbing the Bookshelves

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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 […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] legal, ethical or privacy concerns either for the Hess family or prisoner Spandau #7.’14 Since 1979 the Hess Doppelgänger question has ranked somewhere between the assassination of JFK and the Zinoviev Letter in the catalogue of unsolved conspiracies. Consequently it took less than three days in the online world of revisionist history for Joseph […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff you begin to lose the will to live’. See . Yes, both subjects are full of […]

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