Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he absolutely believes that he is a ‘Great Man’, destined to leave his mark on history and be forever remembered as his country’s saviour, a contemporary Winston Churchill. Everything else is all about positioning. One of the mistakes that Seldon and Newell make is that they take him too seriously, despite all their damning […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Doppelgangers Hillary Clinton’s apparent fainting spell during the 9/11 commemoration in September led to an explosion of theorising. The right-wing, who had been on her case over an alleged ‘secret illness’ for some time, went absolutely bananas.1 This cloud of conspiracy conjecture followed her into the car that rushed her away […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Holding pattern Garrick Alder Coincidence theories W ith the jury’s declaration of guilt in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we can now move forward to the vital next step, which is to spend the rest of his sorry lifespan (and maybe longer) listening to lunatics claiming he was totally innocent and it […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had considerable credibility in right-wing circles, even being ‘enthusiastically received . . . by senior cabinet members’. (p. 9) Consumed by his hatred for Bolshevism, even Winston Churchill seems to have briefly given the Protocols some credence. And then on 16, 17 and 18 August 1921, The Times published a series of articles by […]

The book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] roam and camp is enjoyed across the Nordic, Baltic and central European countries. The author notes all this more in sorrow than in anger and quotes Winston Churchill approvingly : It is not the individual I attack; it is the system. It is not the man who is bad; it is the law which […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why can’t you plan […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be passing information to Moscow, given that the UK and the USSR were allies and that Soviet scepticism about the genuine good faith and trustworthiness of Churchill and Roosevelt, notwithstanding all their assurances of friendship, could be mitigated by secret intelligence being passed to them by Philby and others, especially if this confirmed […]

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