What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Wicks was a weird individual, possibly suffering from a persecution mania, who believed that the Sun Alliance Insurance company of Canada was at the centre of a conspiracy against him. In Wormwood Scrubs following his prosecution by the company for libel, Wicks encountered Arnold Leese, the anti-Semitic vet and founder of the Imperial Fascist […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] one Lionel Jones – commissioned by the late Stephan Kock, allegedly of MI6, and carried out by British (SAS) personnel. This was followed by a vast judicial–state conspiracy to cover it up. But is the document genuine? We will probably never know: the CIA certainly won’t confirm it. My guess is that it isn’t, […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] edition, Kindle and Nook Publishing, 2010) Cordesman, A H, ‘The Tanker War, 1987-1988’ in Cordesman, A. H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., The Silent Conspiracy: Britain’s Security Services in the 1990s (London: Mandarin, 1993) Dorril, S and Ramsay, R., Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London, Harper Collins, 1992) El-Naijar, H. […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: 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 […]

View from 92 copy

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[…] 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. 13 or 14 See, for example, or . 15 On the Trump-Putin theme, see […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] that Oswald acted alone.’ 15 The general thrust of the article was that this might finally be an opportunity to debunk the Warren Commission! There was a conspiracy, the Guardian article claimed, based around Oswald and the pro-Castro Cubans with whom Oswald is alleged by some to have associated with during his stay in […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become fashionable to decry the power of conspiracy and to regard the path of history as the unfolding of the action of great men and forces beyond our current understanding. This book puts the […]

lob86South of the Border

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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 […]

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