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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

22 November 1963 on CD-ROM

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] will have to go on the shopping list too for that reason alone. I wish I could be more positive about the Encyclopedia. It is firmly pro- conspiracy where the Investigation is open-minded (you decide, it says) and Jane Rusconi certainly knows her way about this neck of the woods – she was responsible […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] this before it was posted?’ *new* Thought for the day Someone called Tom (no surname) emailed me wondering about the current validity of Anthony Summers’ distinction between conspiracy theories and theories about conspiracies. Tom wonders if it wouldn’t make more sense to describe contemporary phenomena – such as QAnon – as conspiracy ideologies. There […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] witnesses who saw things which didn’t fit the official verdict of ‘pilot error’ were marginalised or ignored and photographs were doctored. It looks like the standard formula: conspiracy and cover-up. The evidence assembled over the 50 years since can be construed to plausibly support a scenario in which the plane was brought down by […]

Lob 82 View from Bits copy

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[…] was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within Trump’s circle that the FBI was a part of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy to prevent his election. In October 2020 Durham was appointed a Special Counsel. His investigations have led to Igor Danchenko1 and Michael Sussmann2 being indicted for […]

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