What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Wicks was a weird individual, possibly suffering from a persecution mania, who believed that the Sun Alliance Insurance company of Canada was at the centre of a conspiracy against him. In Wormwood Scrubs following his prosecution by the company for libel, Wicks encountered Arnold Leese, the anti-Semitic vet and founder of the Imperial Fascist […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him and […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] book by John Robles. As Robin points out, it’s a self-published rant about NATO apparently being founded by Nazis. If you’re into this wackier end of the conspiracy oeuvre then I’m sure you’ll also enjoy Kennedy’s Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 & JFK’s Assassination by Michael E. Salla.21 And . . . yes . […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Studies at Edinburgh University and expert on British Intelligence, agreed the files prove MI5 was not involved with Hess. “If we boil it down very simply, the conspiracy theory is that there was a plot by British intelligence deliberately to lure Rudolf Hess to Britain to engage in peace negotiations in the spring of […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 or 5 6 The evidence is examined by Jon Danzig at . See also Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] edition, Kindle and Nook Publishing, 2010) Cordesman, A H, ‘The Tanker War, 1987-1988’ in Cordesman, A. H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., The Silent Conspiracy: Britain’s Security Services in the 1990s (London: Mandarin, 1993) Dorril, S and Ramsay, R., Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London, Harper Collins, 1992) El-Naijar, H. […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, written by William Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times, with US alt-right conspiracy theorist James Dale Davison. 7 Bilderberg, a gathering of the great, good and interesting (provided they are wealthy), appear to have invited Thiel to join prior […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] its cause, leads Bloom to Gary Murray who mentions this in his 1993 book Enemies of the State. This, says Bloom, ‘became a bible a both for conspiracy theorists and those whose legitimate investigations suggested an actual series of conspiratorial situations’. (p. 35) It did? News to me. Murray’s book was full of fascinating […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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