The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Psy-Op. These documents are on the Web at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html/ What Jack told Marilyn? I’d hate to be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] a member of the Bush family should be gift-wrapped in the crap he bequeathed. Some of the entanglements of the Bush family have been presented as a conspiracy – a hidden and mysterious plot at the apparent centre of which lies the Bush alma mater Yale University’s Skull and Bones society – a variation […]

Fire Magic: Hi-jack at Mogadishu

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] report,(1) tracked her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. […]

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] the Commission on Preservation and Access which recommended scanning and discarding, was on Xerox’s advisory panel at the time. It is difficult, nevertheless, to discern an actual conspiracy at work in the story, though this may in part be owing to the book’s lack of a clear chronological structure. Rather, one gains the impression […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] and these characters? Despite fresh evidence (from the membership list) Griffiths, ultimately, comes to the same conclusion as Herbert Morrison in 1941 that Ramsay was an unstable conspiracy theorist, many of his followers were cranks, and many of those on the Right Club membership list may not even have known they were on it. […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] of this woman and decided not to. If you are interested it is on Cryptome. I am conscious of the fate of Matthew Williams, publisher of the conspiracy theory-oriented magazine Truthseekers’ Review (5) In November he was arrested and convicted for the ‘offence’ of making a crop circle in a field. As part of […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping up on a position not so very dissimilar to the kinds of conspiracy theories popular during ‘roll-back’s’ hey-day, in the early 1950s: “Let us, for the sake of argument accept the explanations for our giving aid to Mozambique. Perhaps […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] bring back to London when their Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. […]

New Labour Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] Ascott House, de Rothschild’s home in Buckinghamshire, for a seated banquet for 100’. Just imagine how this Clinton-Mandelson-Rothschild link is going to be treated by certain American conspiracy theorists! Lobbying news The Labour government’s bizarre decision to follow America down the casinos-are-good-for-you route (See Lobster 43 p. 33) was the result of lobbying by […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] between. As far as it goes it is quite interesting, initially rather amusing, to read the lunatic opinions of the far-right on almost everything from the Global Conspiracy to fluoride. But by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions […]

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