Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] nonsense Nesta Webster used to write in the early twentieth century – conspiratorial literature that saw the Russian Revolution as part of a longer history of Jewish conspiracy. Winston Churchill was reportedly a fan of this stuff. Indeed, while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides […]

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

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 […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Hess’ desperate and bizarre initiative, and his subsequent life incarceration in Spandau prison, have given rise to a host of conspiracy theories. The authors deserve credit for their stamina in going through both older and newer material with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. My only quibble is that […]

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 Secret Team

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Team and its multinational covert operations, to wit: This is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. (Emphases in the original.) Prouty was not offering a crude conspiracy theory about the ST. He writes: Thus, the Secret Team is not a clandestine super-planning-board or super-general staff. But even more damaging to the coherent conduct […]

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 […]

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