US Anglophobes get another chance to stick it to BP

Lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jnr says it's not a British issue but that's hardly convincing given his family's reputation

Crispin Black

ROBERT F KENNEDY JNR, nephew of the assassinated US President John F Kennedy, has found a new outlet for the family's notorious Anglophobia – suing BP, or ‘British' Petroleum as President Obama likes to call the company, even though that hasn't been the company's name since it merged with the US oil giant Amoco in 2001. It's just BP. Kennedy is one of the lawyers beginning a series of new lawsuits against BP over the 2010 Deepwater spill in the Gulf of Mexico – despite the fact that billions in fines and compensation have already been paid.

Kennedy used a recent interview with the Daily Telegraph to deny the argument that BP is being targeted because it is British owned.

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is a former Welsh Guards lieutenant colonel and intelligence analyst for the British government's Joint Intelligence Committee. His book, 7-7: What Went Wrong, was one of the first to be published after the London bombings in July 2005.