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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] essay she ran several recognisably Russian state ‘lines’ on the conflict. I looked for other writing of hers and quoted some propounding a version of the big conspiracy theory held by some of the antiSee, for example, or . 74 or 75 or 76 My original formulation of the Blair and Israel issue appeared […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] by his counterpart in MI6, but had no personal knowledge of, or planning role, in the incident.’6 Was the LIFG a terrorist organisation in 1996? This apparent conspiracy by MI6, using an Islamic extremist group to assassinate a foreign leader, was the moral tipping point for Shayler: ‘I joined the service to stop terrorism […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] nose appear too large and his head appears too small. On the other hand, from a distance the deception might work. But unless we posit an elaborate conspiracy by Peck and LBJ to establish LBJ’s ignorance of his ‘cousin’s’ existence, it appears that Estes’ account of the Peck ‘cousin’ standing-in for LBJ is untrue. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] America in his ‘Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows’.4 ‘The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] because – unlike Bilderberg or similar effusions of establishment networking (including Davos) – they don’t appear to bear the imprint of political control or in extremis, ‘ conspiracy.’ Having said that, they are very obviously deeply committed to maintaining the fabric of the current social order. However I have not yet completed my list […]

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

Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] quite apart from anything else – an opportunist assertion of US power in general. In closing remarks, Harvey lambasts ‘….what amounts to academic groupthink – like other conspiracy theories, neoconism develops an entire narrative around a simplistic first image (leadership driven) theory6 about the Machiavellian brilliance and 6 Frank Harvey is here assuming the […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet […]

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