The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] June, 2019 .) 12 13 This morally questionable but, nevertheless, legal explanation comes on p. 387. 14 p. 39 4 money? Looking beyond these character flaws, the conspiracy against him is well established by Rosthorn’s account. There are even hints that the intelligence services were involved. As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding […]

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 […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

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 […]

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 […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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, […]

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 […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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

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 […]

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