Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] refused to speak to any specific charges but suggested instead a nefarious anti-Semitic plot afoot within Citizen Lab, Israeli government apparatchiks joined the chorus singing cabal and conspiracy. “I can tell you that’s for sure that we see the fingerprints and footprints of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic Financial Times 19 July 2019 1 2 […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] revealed the existence of ‘a deliberate, counter-revolutionary, anti-Communist plot carried out by a gang of police-informers, agents provocateurs and intelligence agents, centred around the leading Titoites’. This conspiracy had been put in place at the end of the 1930s, according to Laszlo Rajk, the Hungarian CP leader, who not only admitted his own ‘Trotskyism’ […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] squashed it, but instead ‘he fuelled the smear’. (p. 130) Oborne was outraged at the way that the Mail on Sunday ‘had entered into something like a conspiracy with Downing Street to mislead its readers into thinking that three honourable British politicians were conniving with a foreign power’. Benn seems to have been accorded […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] of Mr Calcutt’s investigation to the Metropolitan Police, who concluded that the way in which the MoD had handled the case provided prima facie evidence of a conspiracy to defraud. Given the political sensitivity of the case, the police referred the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for direction. Although the police […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by his counterpart in MI6, but had no personal knowledge of, or planning role, in the incident.’6 Was the LIFG a terrorist organisation in 1996? This apparent conspiracy by MI6, using an Islamic extremist group to assassinate a foreign leader, was the moral tipping point for Shayler: ‘I joined the service to stop terrorism […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nose appear too large and his head appears too small. On the other hand, from a distance the deception might work. But unless we posit an elaborate conspiracy by Peck and LBJ to establish LBJ’s ignorance of his ‘cousin’s’ existence, it appears that Estes’ account of the Peck ‘cousin’ standing-in for LBJ is untrue. […]

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