The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] Let’s think: Operation Phoenix? Supporting every scumbag regime on the right since World War 2? Facilitating the world-wide heroin plague? A parapolitical joke How many Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Fifteen. One to screw it in, five to say he acted alone, one to say […]

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 Round Table Again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] – not even for refutation – and the closest we get to him is the comment of the Round Table that ‘as an organization that shunned publicity, conspiracy theories abound….’ However, the authors go on to note that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) ’emerged after the […]

Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] of anyone else. The Research Centre is going to produce newsletters, clippings etc. Help Wanted Peter Jordon was convicted some years ago of being part of a conspiracy, with members of INLA (if memory serves), to assassinate a British Army officer. Whether he was guilty or not (or what he thought he was doing) […]

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 […]

A Bush and Botox World

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Bells of recognition may be ringing, for it was the IPS which was at the heart of one of the American Right’s conspiracy theories two decades ago, thinly disguised in the Robert Moss/Arnaud de Borchgrave novel about KGB penetration of America, The Spike. (20 Landau, I guess, is an […]

Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] of MI5. Some senior members of SOE also came from Slaughter & May. Cf Lobster Who’s Who. Barchard, p. 177 Brendon O’Malley and Ian Craig, The Cyprus Conspiracy, (London: IB Tauris, 1999) Ibid. This book was reviewed in Lobster 38 The sensitivity of the issue may be judged by the events surrounding the publication […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] Britain’s relationship with Europe. Young concedes that at best, Britain’s relationship with Europe witnessed high political misjudgement, and at worst, involved not just a plot but a conspiracy; integration was accomplished only by deception.(36) Likewise, Shore charged that on the issue of Europe, deception has been practised by successive governments on a scale, and […]

St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in the … Read more

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