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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Treasury is getting governments to control spending,’ he said calmly. ‘So any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government so much as an attempt to get the policies they believed in.’ Beckett comments: ‘It seemed rather a fine distinction. Perhaps sensing this, […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] it seems unlikely to me that the Soviets would have sent someone quite so useless. 5 2 them were anti-semites, who believed that bolshevism was a Jewish conspiracy. (It is easy to forget that this was quite widely believed on the European and American right in the inter-war years.) It is this material which […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Cardiff University. Joseph Fitsanakis, ‘Cambridge spy ring member gave USSR British royals’ pro-Nazi letters’, Intelnews.org, 6 April 2021, at . Blunt’s career, including his time in MI5 and his post-war mission to Germany, are covered in Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman, Conspiracy of Silence: the Secret Life of Anthony Blunt (London: Grafton, 1986). 47 19
[PDF file]: […] has a natural affinity for Russia. Russia treats him nice’. (p. 9) And this is quite a convincing argument. What we have is not a deliberate calculated conspiracy, something that Trump is not really capable of, but rather the Russians covertly supporting Trump and manipulating his affinity with – and liking for – Putin’s […]
[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 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 […]
