Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] fact, it was meant to be satire, written not edited by Barbara Goodwin. It is thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] new applicants for the Labour Party Parliamentary Panel. This was an extremely significant grouping exercising great power in contemporary Britain. But is this organised? Is it a conspiracy? The firm way in which some GMB-endorsed candidates have slotted into various seats in the North East Hilary Armstrong, Nick Brown, Doug Henderson, Kevan Jones […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] accurate sample of it, the extracts published in the Sunday Times (11th and 18th March 1984) are entirely representative of the larger work. Golitsyn offers a gigantic conspiracy theory the like of which is rarely found outside the fantasies of the loony right-wing (or parodies of that, such as Wilson/Shea’s spoof Illuminatus trilogy). That […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] to pin it down as emanating from any one ideological strand is inappropriate.(44) The NF’s consciously articulated racist ideology, nationalism, support for nuclear weapons and adherence to conspiracy theories rules out any strategy of being ‘leftist’. The NF at the start of 1986 — a balance sheet In the period immediately preceding the outbreak […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] railways. Nice example of prudence, eh, Gordon? Where would we be without consultants? I’ve always liked NASA’s definition of a consultant/ expert: ‘An ordinary guy a long way from home.’ A good study of the period from the end of the war to privatisation is David Henshaw’s The Great Railway Conspiracy (Hawes: Leading Edge, 1991).
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] not prospered. Maybe he fobbed me off with a cock-and-bull story of what he was doing. John Alexander On May 2, 1998, the editor of the Internet conspiracy zine The Konformist, Robert Sterling, with Kathy Kasten, one of the people involved in trying to make sense of the mind-control connundrum, went to see John […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] birds’ or ‘the aviary’, who were involved in the operation. Of Doty he said in a recent interview: ‘Rick Doty has probably contributed more to the UFO-government conspiracy rumours than everyone else combined. He has done so while in the government employ, and maintaining high level contacts in the intelligence community.’ Why Bennewitz […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] the position and his current views on the continuing drugs/parapolitics connection. Z is $US3.50 per issue from 150 West Canton St, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Proof of Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination Now on Video… “Fake”! For more than 25 years photoanalyst Jack White has studied the famous “backyard” photographs of Lee Harvey Osward […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] a ‘new (left) world order’ with Robin Cook’s (more mythical) ‘ethical foreign policy’, whose growth was stunted by a ‘malign alliance’ (he can’t bring himself to say conspiracy) of the ‘foreign policy establishments and the “old left”‘. The day after the huge war pro-test he would claim Blair was ethically leading Bush into the […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] the Heckler and Koch MP5K to the Metropolitan Police. As Handgunner magazine (No 23 1984) noted: “It is soon apparent that here is an area in which conspiracy theorists could enjoy themselves.” Professor Paul Wilkinson, so-called counter-insurgency and terrorist expert, said in a letter to the Times (11th April 1984) that “The MP5 is […]