Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago mayor Anton Cermak – died when his […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] about his fellow correspondents in Berlin and the various proprietors they worked for. Certainly, Rothermere seems to have been the worst, although Clement Attlee did apparently describe Lord Beaverbrook as ‘the only evil man I ever met’. (p. 121) John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] in Europe about which I know little and would have difficulty checking. In this situation the reviewer heads for familiar territory and Cottrell has included the anti- Labour events of the 1960s and 70s which I know pretty well; and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] this, all political parties continue to follow the example of Boris Johnson and assert that they can have their cake and eat it. Those who think the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an exception should look at his interview with Robert Peston.16 In my view this is no time for equivocation. We are […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] felt obliged to permanently distance himself from News International, Johnson very deliberately decided to publicly associate himself with Murdoch, dismissing the ‘Hacking scandal’ as ‘codswallop’ and a Labour stunt. He very publicly invited Murdoch to be his guest at the Olympics. Without much doubt his thinking is that Murdoch will ride out the ‘Hacking […]