[PDF file]: […] later of course became its Director-General) match up pretty well with TrevorRoper’s picture of MI6 in the 1940s. Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘ conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by […]
[PDF file]: […] less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was facing a vast, Soviet-funded communist conspiracy, ‘the enemy within’. And so when Green heard that Murrell was missing it wasn’t so irrational that he should ring the Shropshire police and inform them […]
[…] the SIS view of Russian influence on the Scottish and Brexit campaigns through his character? There is not enough evidence to say this, so this remains a conspiracy theory at this stage – but interesting.8 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos at or […]
[…] his earlier career as a champion of human rights and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. […]
[PDF file]: […] that our social science work here merely forms a type of satire and is incompatible with a ‘serious’ sociological analysis and is in effect some kind of conspiracy theory, we can say that it is at times difficult to be able to distinguish between the two when these things are made so; but we […]
[PDF file]: […] its cause, leads Bloom to Gary Murray who mentions this in his 1993 book Enemies of the State. This, says Bloom, ‘became a bible a both for conspiracy theorists and those whose legitimate investigations suggested an actual series of conspiratorial situations’. (p. 35) It did? News to me. Murray’s book was full of fascinating […]
[PDF file]: […] do know that Coulson’s earlier employer, News International (now News UK), made very little of his return to civvy street five months into his 18-month sentence for conspiracy to hack phones and of the Conservative defeat in what was previously a very safe Tory seat. The linked worlds of criminality, the media, the state […]
[PDF file]: […] refused to speak to any specific charges but suggested instead a nefarious anti-Semitic plot afoot within Citizen Lab, Israeli government apparatchiks joined the chorus singing cabal and conspiracy. “I can tell you that’s for sure that we see the fingerprints and footprints of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic Financial Times 19 July 2019 1 2 […]
[PDF file]: […] squashed it, but instead ‘he fuelled the smear’. (p. 130) Oborne was outraged at the way that the Mail on Sunday ‘had entered into something like a conspiracy with Downing Street to mislead its readers into thinking that three honourable British politicians were conniving with a foreign power’. Benn seems to have been accorded […]
[PDF file]: […] harbours for the descendants of its slave population was now reshaped as a version of anti-communism, which of course had to be rooted in an alleged foreign conspiracy – conceived in the Soviet Union of course. In the ante-bellum era as well as the period before the UDI of 1776, slaveholders regularly asserted that […]
