Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] sure that chauvinistic Tories and crusty old English lawyers simply resent being told off by the UN. Censorship I’m also starting to take some of the ‘ conspiracy theories’ surrounding this case seriously. That worries me. I’ve always resisted this way of thinking, possibly naively. (It can be 2 See entries for 11 November […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] something – like being respected and listened to – might want answered. In a nutshell, there is ample evidence that what can be truly described as a conspiracy took place, which gave birth to a coup. The right in the party’s only response now is ‘the left hasn’t learnt any lessons. It’s time to […]

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

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] but Prouty has no evidence for this. His comments are opinions, albeit those of a highly placed insider. Other possibilities exist: for example that the real assassination conspiracy was piggy-backed on the CIA stunt, a fake assassination attempt to be blamed on apparent Castro-sympathiser Oswald, implicit in Holt’s tale of the smooth-bore rifle firing […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] exposition is Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol. 4, 1993. The version which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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. […]

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

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

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