The Green Anarchist/GAndALF Case

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] fatally flawed. The judgement compares this case with another recent animal rights-related case heard by the Court of Appeal in November 1997, where there was an alleged conspiracy to commit offences of criminal damage. (R v Roberts and Others, concerning protests at Shoreham over live calve exports). The Court considered the procedure in this […]

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] today. Directive number N/99639 of BIS demanded the establishment of a net of Agents among their residents in Europe. These groups, whose purpose was to have been conspiracy only, were prepared for carrying out activities of sabotage, diversion and terror in cases of ‘special circumstance’ all in case of worsening relations in those states. […]

Our Friends in the North-East

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 […]

Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

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 […]

No one ever suddenly became depraved

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 […]

MacV-Sog Command History: Annexes A, N, and M (1964-66)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] a conclusion that, even if SOG did spark the full-blown phase of the Vietnam War, such a result was not intended. Moreover, it now appears that any conspiracy theory cuts two ways. If SOG was riddled with untrustworthy, local employees right from the start, then Hanoi may have known what was coming in advance […]

The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

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 […]

Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] Business Age, and striking though they were, did not include any reliable evidence.) He is also occasionally inclined to assume that chronology is causation. The vast state conspiracy he describes against the smaller firms involved in the arming of Iraq, complete with murders, blackmail, and corruption in almost every government department, is probably true. […]

Storming teacups! Or: Steve Dorril, Lobster and me

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] issue. Between issues 23 and 24 when I rang to arrange a meeting he told me he was too busy writing the book which became The Silent Conspiracy to meet me to discuss Lobster24. OK, thought I, this is silly: too busy to meet to even discuss the magazine which carries your name? I […]

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