Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about conspiracies.4 Mega conspiracy theories cannot be falsified because believers present an infinite regress of evasion strategies: […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

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, […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

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 […]

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 […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] (p. 4) ‘orders on abdication’ is about right. To cite just one example he highlights: Robert Caro’s quartet of books about LBJ, Arthur Schlesinger’s account of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days, and Robert Dallek’s recent much praised two volume Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President,5 all ignore the TFX affair which straddled […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

Lobster Issue

[…] Phillip F. Nelson Xlibris 2010 ISBN 978-1-4535-0301-0 Available from Amazon.co.uk for a little over £12 plus postage. T his 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 […]

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 […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind we would enjoy.” Heath Cabinet member, John Davies, speaking of Christmas 1973. ( Kennedy Lindsay, Ambush at Tully-West, p. 107) * In 1976, just before and just after his resignation as Prime Minister, Harold Wilson made a number of charges […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] too silly to deserve summary here – he believes, for example, that the House of Windsor controls the world’s drug traffic, organised the assassination of John F. Kennedy etc. etc. – but the headline of his New Solidarity‘s story on the recent Sunday Times-Buckingham Palace ‘leak’ story gives a flavour of his delusions: “Will […]

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