Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a Moscow-directed conspiracy turned out to be partly true. Former member and CPGB employee, journalist Sarah Benton, reacted with talk of ‘the other communist parties’, meaning, I guess, various […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] directory, Muckrack, tells me that Cunningham has written for Russia Today and Sputnik. So pro-Russian? But also for The Unz Review and Veterans Today, both far right conspiracy theory sites, and Lew Rockwell, whose content is difficult to easily categorise. 3 or 4 1 development would be a closely-held secret? The putative existence of […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] I had already tried – and largely failed – to persuade the members of my branch of the Labour Party that the Militant Tendency really was the conspiracy in the party that the party’s leaders, various Militant defectors and a couple of wellresearched books said it was. People who attend meetings of political parties […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24 Andrew Rosthorn Thirty years of self-funded investigations into the failed Rudolf Hess peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 antivaxxers in the USA and Europe. Covert Action has recently published another essay by Ms Ende, ‘U.S. Media Are Lying […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[PDF file]: […] Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, ‘a patriot’; in other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] and a former banker for Hill Samuel, First National Bank of Chicago and Citibank, she told Theo Panayides of the Cyprus Mail: ‘It was all a great conspiracy. They had no evidence against Asil Nadir, and they wanted me to spill the beans. There’s something else you should know: they put a spy into […]

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