Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the way of the President John F Kennedy assassination in 1963: anniversary recycling of old stories with its surviving researchers inhabiting the Grassy Knoll cast as ‘ conspiracy theorists’? It seemed likely when those looking into 9/11 were styled not as sturdy investigators but as obsessive ‘truthers’ indulging in the ‘voodoo history’ alleged by […]

Last post for Oswald

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] now had two postal addresses in 10 Ironically, the FBI made this disclosure in an attempt to refute the claims of one of the first published JFK conspiracy theorists. See . 11 12 There is a rather furtive twist in his choice of apartment. 4905 Magazine Street is not a separate building, but a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] interesting might just appear. In this case, nothing did. I also asked Google AI about Holt and got this. While Holt’s claims are often cited in JFK conspiracy literature, they were largely undermined in 1992 when the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus Abrams—three […]

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[…] chauvinist, who was at best indifferent to racism, and frequently denounced what he thought was a worldwide campaign against heterosexuality and gender stability. Among the other extravagant conspiracy theories he endorsed was the idea that vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was akin to a form of biological warfare, conducted by western A reference to […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the US Left cannot abandon the central theological foundation of the USA – an idea that it is sociopolitical salvation compared to Europe. When people write that conspiracy theories distract from greater political movement, this has the same cognitive and rhetorical function as the insistence even among radical clergy on the legitimacy of the […]

A Memoir of Injustice by Jerry Ray

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the pile in post-war America and how the Ray brothers became petty criminals, as far as I can see it contributes nothing to our understanding of the conspiracy which ensnared James Earl Ray and led him to becoming the patsy in Memphis. It may illustrate certain peripheral items, such as Ray’s experience of the […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] fire and effectively allowed ‘the left to weaponise the Grenfell disaster’, aided and abetted by the BBC and Channel 4 who ‘presented the tragedy as a capitalist conspiracy against downtrodden workers’. Across London, ‘Trotskyist agitators spread the message that the dispossessed should grab power’ with Jeremy Corbyn calling for ‘a general strike, and revolution’. […]

The Solipsist Revolution: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: Donald Trump and the de-collectivisation of a superpower Garrick Alder Part 1 ‘A conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’1 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to […]

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[…] chauvinist, who was at best indifferent to racism, and frequently denounced what he thought was a worldwide campaign against heterosexuality and gender stability. Among the other extravagant conspiracy theories he endorsed was the idea that vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic was akin to a form of biological warfare, conducted by western A reference to […]

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