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 […]

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)

[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 […]

View from

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] refused to speak to any specific charges but suggested instead a nefarious anti-Semitic plot afoot within Citizen Lab, Israeli government apparatchiks joined the chorus singing cabal and conspiracy. “I can tell you that’s for sure that we see the fingerprints and footprints of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic Financial Times 19 July 2019 1 2 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] a game of ‘what if?’, it explains a lot of things in one go, so it has the virtue of simplicity on its side. The ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ redux C urious that Monica Lewinsky reappeared in the news earlier this year, as the guest speaker at a TED talk, nearly 20 years after her […]

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