Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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 […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott’s essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion documented if possible. Scott’s conception then was of parapolitics: ‘a system or […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] assassination Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. This a 700 page, self-published synthesis of the recent Kennedy assassination literature, inside which is about 100 pages relevant to the book’s title. It’s a pity the author simply didn’t publish those 100 pages, because they […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] make much public impact, ex-MI6 man Paddy – ‘Pantsdown’ – Ashdown took the reins of the newly formed LibDems.30 He was succeeded by former SDP MP Charles Kennedy, a man obviously afflicted by serious drink problems long before 26 27 28 29 30 he admitted them, who stood down in 2006. Kennedy had been […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] is OK to boast that it certainly used to do so. DiEugenio on Parry Jim DiEugenio took slight umbrage at my review of his book on the Kennedy assassination in this issue. In that review I said that he was very good indeed; and if further evidence is needed to support that claim, it […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] got didn’t do it, Doug. You can count on that.” ’ Unlike others of that generation, Douglas Valentine did not become obsessed with the question ‘Who shot Kennedy?’ At the age of 14, he could not imagine why his father had reacted in that way to news of the Dallas assassination. Yet he went […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

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[…] King Jr.’s assassination due to an executive order signed in January 2025, fulfilling a campaign promise to declassify records related to the assassinations of King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. This release also occurred amidst ongoing criticism and pressure on the Trump administration regarding the handling and transparency of documents related to […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine Scott Newton Westplaining The Russo-Ukraine war has become a focus of intense study on the part of mainstream and social media, academics and the twitter commentariat. Much of this has depicted the struggle as a clear case of good (Ukraine) versus bad (Russia). Those who have not accepted […]

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