Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two years ago I formally complained to the SIRC, which was then chaired by Dr. Porter. My complaint was about Canada’s spy agency’s (CSIS) illegal campaign […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] only trumped by Dr Lewinson’s summary of her own findings when the awed Mr Epstein asked her whether Oswald’s handwriting gave any clues as to a possible conspiracy. Dr Lewinson announced: ‘In my opinion, Oswald needed support and guidance from others for carrying out a complex plan, such as his defection to the USSR […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Such an individual would have been relentlessly pilloried as unfit for office, someone not to be trusted. Or imagine if Keir Starmer had been involved in a conspiracy with one Darius Guppy to have a journalist beaten up and had denied it right up until a tape recording was played proving he had.2 He […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] his earlier career as a champion of human rights and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Archives.9 Hess and the Doppleganger Hess Andrew Rosthorn’s piece on Rudolf Hess in the current issue10 makes mention of the BBC Timewatch episode ‘Hess: The Edge of Conspiracy’. The programme was fronted by the eternally smug Professor Christopher Andrew – he who was chosen by MI5 to be the custodian of their officially published […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] the SIS view of Russian influence on the Scottish and Brexit campaigns through his character? There is not enough evidence to say this, so this remains a conspiracy theory at this stage – but interesting.8 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos at or […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] his earlier career as a champion of human rights and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] reviving the ‘lawless spirit . . . of the 1960s’. They want ‘a revolution and they are so close they can taste it’. (p. 13) This great conspiracy has made use of ‘Marxist/Lenin doctrine: lie, divide and conquer’ to bring America down. Wallnau singles out the late historian Howard Zinn (who died in January […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: 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 […]

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