A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him of being the ‘paymaster’ in the alleged murder conspiracy.28 After Thorpe was replaced by David Steel in 1976 (and particularly once the Lib-Lab pact was in force), Hayward divorced himself completely from any involvement […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue

[…] had been shot in Oak Cliff’.8 So: both the Dallas officers photographed escorting the ‘tramps’ said in 1977 that they had done so before news of the murder of Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15 pm.9 But the photographs of the ‘tramps’ being marched through the centre of Dallas show very long shadows […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. * new * How viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot’? In August, 21 year-old Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] – reminding potential readers that there was still much to enjoy in the rural US, such as vinyl record stores 12 Thorpe was cleared of conspiracy to murder a former homosexual lover. No charges for this offence were ever brought against any third party. and welcome revival of Southern food.13 Yes: but does this […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] led him to set up a parliamentary inquiry headed by Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ […]

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