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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] He’s impressed by what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself.’ Meyer’s 1964 murder remains unsolved. 4 Michael Rainey ran a clothes shop, Hung on You, at 430 Kings Road SW10, described by music journalist Nik Cohn as ‘simultaneously the […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] record of what actually transpired during the Trump Presidency. In her first chapter, ‘The Burning Church’, which deals with the rioting and protests provoked by the police murder of George Floyd, she hilariously describes Trump as ‘a hard worker, generally amicable and typically good at lightening the mood’. One of her proudest moments during […]

The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] point. John Gray in The New Statesman5 accuses Crais of parochialism in omitting the French revolution, as if a progressive cause couldn’t equally be guilty of mass murder and Terror. Similarly, he thinks the timeframe of 1750-1900 was constructed to exclude the Russian revolution and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] warmly welcoming his neighbour Starmer as Labour’s new leader – ‘my wife likes his wife’ – Coren describes Corbyn as ‘an apologist for race hate at home, murder abroad and political tyranny from Damascus to the Kremlin’. Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, et al. […]

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