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 […]

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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. *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 […]

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

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] later of course became its Director-General) match up pretty well with TrevorRoper’s picture of MI6 in the 1940s. Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘ conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by […]

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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. *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 […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was facing a vast, Soviet-funded communist conspiracy, ‘the enemy within’. And so when Green heard that Murrell was missing it wasn’t so irrational that he should ring the Shropshire police and inform them […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] that our social science work here merely forms a type of satire and is incompatible with a ‘serious’ sociological analysis and is in effect some kind of conspiracy theory, we can say that it is at times difficult to be able to distinguish between the two when these things are made so; but we […]

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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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 […]

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