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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little more about international conspiracy than understanding their individual motivations. From Charles Pottins Good to see you’re maintaining a sceptical eye on the ex-Living Marxism /Lying Marketing scam. I didn’t get […]

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 […]

Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] report on the police use of computers, published by the GLC. For details see Publications. RR 007 Murray Sayles’ long apologia for the official version – “a conspiracy of circumstances” – in the Sunday Times (May 20th and 27th 1984). More interesting is the Defence Attache (June) piece by the pseudonymous P.Q. Mann, which […]

The View From the Bridge: Gerry Gable. Melita Norwood. Kosovo. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] role after she became Leader of the Opposition in 1975. She was surrounded by spooks and ex-spooks who believed, or pretended to believe, in the Global Communist Conspiracy. What did she believe and do while so many of those around her were muttering that Harold Wilson was a KGB agent? This question is partly […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] the end as far as an independent Britain is concerned. That we’re finished, we are going to be sucked up in a tunnel of giant capitalist, Catholic conspiracy, our lives dominated by Adenauer and De Gaulle, unable to conduct any indepedent foreign policy at all. Frankly, this is rubbish on the basis of the […]

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. […]

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 […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

View from the Bridge

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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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