The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy within the US military would. But of that conspiracy there is no evidence. Robin Ramsay

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] MI5 about their dealings with Mr Bonnett and were given a number of questions to put to him at their meetings. 7 Stephen Dorril, in The Silent Conspiracy, went further: Informers are often more productive sources than telephone tappings and can be made psychologically dependent on their case officers. Bonnett, with his romantic old-style […]

Haters, Baiters and Would-be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and UK Far Right by Nick Toczek

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Alfred Milner – one of the key figures in the British ‘establishment’ for 30 years – could believe the Russian revolution was the work of a Jewish conspiracy (p. 25). And if Milner could contemplate this, could write of himself as a ‘race patriot’ (p. 26), perhaps the issue isn’t why Beamish et al […]

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 […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 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.) […]

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 […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] to be murdered.19 Nutting was actually the minister of state at the Foreign Office, who resigned in a brave bid to deter Eden from the ‘mad imperial conspiracy to invade Egypt with the French and Israelis’20 in 1956. This diplomatic conspiracy trapped David Holden and Michael Adams in the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo, cost […]

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 […]

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