[…] and King magisterially, ‘to substantiate this view, and all the available accounts tell against it. As so often, the cock-up theory seems infinitely more plausible than the conspiracy theory.’ At the end of their 23 detailed chapters, cock-up – ‘a study in failure’ – is their considered conclusion. Jenkins, now Chancellor of Oxford University, […]
[…] something else? Was the week’s notice not an invitation from the inspectors to the hospital managers to do this? Was the whole procedure, in effect, not a conspiracy between the inspectors and the managers to produce the ‘good results’ desired by the government? Notes 1 Marie Woolf, ‘Britain tells America how to avoid “friendly […]
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent; … Read more
[…] harmless and (b) prevented tooth decay, it wasn’t helped by being adopted by the John Birch Society. Their belief, that fluoridation was part of the international communist conspiracy, was put into the mouth of the character Jack. D. Ripper, the demented commander of the US Air Force base in England, who had dispatched nuclear […]
[…] then Chairman of the Security Commission’. Murray leaves this extraordinary episode thus: What happened from that point on is unknown but what is certain is that the conspiracy against Gerry Gable was brought to an abrupt halt’. Armed bodyguards, arranged by Special Branch to protect the editor of an anti-fascist magazine, after a telephone […]
[…] 1980s to search for the US personnel believed by some on the American right to be still alive in Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos. Gritz has now turned himself into a conspiracy theorist, producing magazines, books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes from his Center for Action, Box 472, HCR 31, Sandy Valley, NEV 89019, USA. Gritz covers the […]
[…] stealth and lying. Young, of course, can’t quite bring himself to write of lying and he gives us a variety of euphemisms. ‘deceptive reassurance’ (p. 293) ‘ conspiracy of silence’ (p. 251) ‘near-duplicity’ (p. 249) ‘disguising’ (p. 248) ‘Ministers did not lie but they avoided telling the whole truth.'(p. 247) ‘Disguising’, for example, comes […]
[…] concrete evidence that Saudi royals sponsor terrorism, he repeats Posner’s claim. Unger also refers to Edward James Epstein’s website, but sadly doesn’t repeat my favourite Bush I conspiracy anecdote – the one about the FBI memo in which ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency’ denounced a Republican (!) political rival, for JFK-assassination-related […]
[…] committee which organised the killing and incorporates some of the research which had been done at that time into the assassination. It suggests a local Mafia-oil-right wing conspiracy, hints at H. L. Hunt’s involvement and asserts that the Minutemen, a right-wing group of the period, and the Dallas police, were involved – but offers […]
[…] 270) Why SIS management went to the lengths they did to get rid of him is entirely unclear. On Tomlinson’s account it is some kind of petty conspiracy, a personality clash. If I had to guess I would look here, at his resistance to playing the new game of meeting spurious targets. The introduction […]
