[PDF file]: […] example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt of the Hitler SS’ – something which convinced him that the arrival of the Anti-Christ was imminent. (p. 256) Keddie’s revelation that a 2014 poll showed that only 28 […]
[PDF file]: […] of a garage. He resigned from the party in 1937 – although his letter, now in the National Archives in Washington, DC, ended with the words “Heil Hitler“.’ 6 As many Lobster readers will be aware, Prince Bernhard played an important role in the establishment of the Bilderberg Group in the 1950s.7 The first […]
[PDF file]: Hess DNA: Round 151 Andrew Rosthorn On 22 January 2019, the New Scientist announced: Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory Founded in 1956 for ‘all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences’, the New Scientist claimed to be settling 79 years of doubt about the identity of a German pilot found […]
[PDF file]: […] many grew up with, and I reckon still prevails widely, is that Hess was slightly unbalanced and his flight was a quixotic adventure to regain favour with Hitler as well as to bring an unlikely peace offer to Britain. As others have done, the authors quickly demolish this argument – which was the propaganda […]
[PDF file]: […] in a purely ceremonial fashion, conscientiously signing the day-to-day paperwork of the state and being circumspect at all times. After 1933, it became clear Edward was pro- Hitler, very friendly with figures in the Anglo-German Fellowship, close to Charles Edward, Duke of Coburg (which makes for an interesting co-incidence of sorts with the Palme […]
[PDF file]: Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note Kevin Coogan In Anthony Frewin’s 2015 Lobster article ‘Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book’, he discusses an entry in Oswald’s address book about the far right. 1 Oswald wrote: NAT. SEC. DAN BURROS LINCOLN ROCKWELL ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AMERICAN NAZI PARTY (AMER. NATIONAL PARTY) Hollis sec. of Queens […]
[PDF file]: Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation Andrew Rosthorn Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked on computer in Dordogne Social scientists studying mass-media fantasies known as ‘moral panics’ have reported on an archive of internet traffic that reveals the social media origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal. This revelation was in the International Journal of Sociology […]
[PDF file]: Brexit Revisited Europe Didn’t Work: Why We Left and How to Get the Best from Brexit Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson London: Yale, 2017, £10.99 (p/b) Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] how it was that working-class revolutionaries like Pollitt and Marxist intellectuals like Klugmann became apologists and serial liars for it. Having joined the CP in response to Hitler taking power in Germany in 1933, how on earth did Klugmann explain away, justify to himself, Stalin’s alliance with the Nazis in 1939? According to Andrews, […]
[PDF file]: The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks Nick Must In a previous article for Lobster,1 I discussed the planning that took place during the Second World War to establish a staybehind network in case the Axis powers invaded Great Britain. Thus far my coverage of the subject has extended only to the […]
