Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] page. 6 7 Attending a NATO meeting in West Germany. 8 Reagan had been lobbied to this effect by 45 Senators and Congressmen including Tip O’Neill, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Moynihan. Politically, the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans had a majority of only 6 in the Senate. […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] basic intellectual ground-clearing – reading, note-taking, assembling and indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy Notably Peter Knight, who is the editor of the series from […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them – is positively molten. How could Ted Cruz support Trump after he insulted his wife and accused his father of involvement in the assassination of Jack Kennedy? He had never seen any politician perform ‘acts of greater self-abnegation and humiliation’. The only excuse he can think of is that Cruz hopes for a […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] back in London, Novotny was selling her story to the News of the World, and further claiming she had slept with the nascent US President, John F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] other Labour personnel, including Yvette Cooper, whom Balls later married, and David Miliband, head of Blair’s policy unit, Balls had spent a year in America as a Kennedy Scholar.6 3 By 1994 the long-delayed implementation of the 1952 Robot plan – the British economy open to the world and controlled solely by interest rates […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] after Churchill supposedly ended any such activities – Butler asked Kenneth de Courcy to sound out possible peace terms with Germany, and to use US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy to establish them. While this was being pursued, Butler carried on his quest to end the UK’s involvement in the war. On 17 June 1940, the […]

undercover cops book

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[…] which is one of three main threads here. Another is the author’s reconstruction of her life qua activist, as seen through the reports by ‘Mark Stone’ (Mark Kennedy) the policeman who became her lover/friend, some of which she got access to. Wilson recounts the bizarre and disconcerting experience of reading her former boyfriend’s account […]

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