Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell and Cable, Brown would have assumed that the Liberal Democrats would never do a deal with the Conservatives. But in late 2007 things changed. Firstly, […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did in their This note continues at the foot of the next page. […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him and tape recorded the conversation. Amongst which was this: SOMERSETT: I think Kennedy is coming here on the eighteenth, or something like that to make some kind of speech…… MILTEER: You can bet your bottom dollar he is going […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] reach a critical threshold. Shortly before polling day in May 2005 he very publicly defected to the Liberal Democrats, being formally welcomed into the party by Charles Kennedy MP. His former colleagues in Hackney, who knew nothing of this beforehand, were stunned. There was no second act, no seat in the Lords, no position […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] and alarums of 1974/5, the talk of military coups and the formation of semiclandestine ‘action groups’ and militias by, inter alia, former Deputy Chief of SIS, George Kennedy Young, and David Stirling. The trade unions were at the heart of the subversive-hunters’ theory, with the AEU the most important of them. When David Stirling’s […]