Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Dorril need to tell lies about something so piffling? Chemtrails Chemtrails – high altitude aerial spraying for purposes unknown – have become a regular feature on US conspiracy theorists’ websites and are now starting to appear in the UK equivalents. If you presume it’s all hogwash, take a look at . If that isn’t […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] London. In 1965, Chesterton published his influential book, The New Unhappy Lords, which Macklin sums up as ‘an elegantly written anti-Semitic assault upon the subversive and occult conspiracy which was supposedly seeking to replace the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] unions leaders were agents of Soviet intelligence.2 6 Frolik was being run by the CIA and Dorril and Ramsay viewed this process as evidence of how the conspiracy theories of the subversive-hunters of the British right, such as Brian Crozier, had captured a significant section of the leadership of the Conservative Party which had […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] ask the question: is the CIA not in fact the primary broker of the international drug market? The reader who thinks that Valentine will feed the favourite conspiracy theory will be disappointed. Valentine does not end with a rousing plea to the jury to condemn the CIA as the great evil behind international drug […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Readers of Lobster may well encounter the rough ’ conspiracy theorists’ abuse routinely dished out to anyone questioning an orthodox explanation of events. And, indeed, we do well not to seek over-simple, monochrome accounts of complex occurrences. This is a messy world where the level of institutional core […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] 1 Casa Pia 2 our modern evils’; and that ‘human beings in modern cultures still seem to need the sense that they are battling against an evil conspiracy.’ Of this second claim I am unconvinced. Webster’s analysis of the Bryn Estyn case and this} more recent one seems to me to explain how these […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] politically important material – the Saudi connection and the Bush regime’s refusal to act on the warnings – has been obscured and contaminated for 15 years by conspiracy theories, many of which were obvious nonsense.9 I wonder if some smart alecs in the White House, or its allies in the US intelligence community, didn’t […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] the six-month long lack of communication was: ‘I live in a field and don’t have mu8ch time for these finer points. There is a document supporting the conspiracy between Mi6 and Tunworth who admits contacts with Islamic terrorists.’ 11 Now, if you’ve read the original article, you’ll know that the main thrust of it […]