South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that Oswald acted alone.’ 15 The general thrust of the article was that this might finally be an opportunity to debunk the Warren Commission! There was a conspiracy, the Guardian article claimed, based around Oswald and the pro-Castro Cubans with whom Oswald is alleged by some to have associated with during his stay in […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. This was followed by a vast judicial–state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly won’t confirm it. My guess is that it isn’t, […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] James Files story. Let’s take just one of them: Wim Dankbaar’s Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, and More New Evidence of the Conspiracy that Killed JFK (published in 2008). From this, 4 The Sun-Journal (Lewistone, Maine) 29 September 1994. See or . 5 6 See note 3. anyone can […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become fashionable to decry the power of conspiracy and to regard the path of history as the unfolding of the action of great men and forces beyond our current understanding. This book puts the […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] firm KPMG to advise on the English bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and successfully uncovered Russian bribery in what he describes as ‘an international conspiracy at the heart of one of the most high-profile, feel-good sectors of the economy’. (p. 111) This can perhaps be considered as choir boy activity. And […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] June, 2019 .) 12 13 This morally questionable but, nevertheless, legal explanation comes on p. 387. 14 p. 39 4 money? Looking beyond these character flaws, the conspiracy against him is well established by Rosthorn’s account. There are even hints that the intelligence services were involved. As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

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