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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 […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, its lack of factual fidelity, its sympathy for conspiracy theories and the style in which it covers news and politics combine with Trump’s reluctance to absorb expert advice, meaning the president does not receive a […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] circumstances of the death began to seep out. Albarelli writes that ‘The story of his strange death has taken up permanent residence in the modern codex of conspiracy legend and lore’, and, further, his ‘death has become a touchstone for the fear of shadow government, and 4 Summer 2010 a focal point for justified […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] spending,’ he said calmly. Page 144 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 ‘So any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government so much as an attempt to get the policies they believed in.’ Beckett comments: ‘It seemed rather a fine distinction. Perhaps sensing this, […]

View from the Bridge 89

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[…] special counsel ‘did not find’ that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian actors. What actually happened is that we did not find sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to bring a criminal case—which requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not true we did not find any evidence . . .9 (Emphasis added.) […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] B. Charnay was indicted (and separately sued by the SEC) with Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes, and a top Hughes lawyer on charges of stock manipulation, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the 1968 purchase of Air West, though the indictment was subsequently dismissed by a federal judge who called the alleged behavior ‘reprehensible and […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] (and why they were never going to) Chris Grey London: Biteback Publishing, 2021, £14.99 (p/b) Bartholomew Steer I wrote in Lobster 80 on whether Brexit was a conspiracy or a cock-up.1 Water has passed under the bridge since then and I can report that the question posed at the end of the article has […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] main title of Eagleton’s book could also be altered, since in the light of Get In it may be more accurate to call what happened ‘The Starmer Conspiracy.’ One shouldn’t use the c-word loosely, but Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity, with the aim of deceiving the membership of the Labour […]

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