Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] been the real target. Why would anyone want to murder a philosopher? The presumption has to be that the assassins believed the nickname ‘Putin’s Brain’ reflects a hidden political reality. As for the claim that Dugin is the World’s Most Dangerous Philosopher, this depends entirely on what one means by ‘World’. If one means […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] born deformed and immediately baptised as Christian but unexpectedly survived the antenatal period. His noble parents are said to have pretended Thomas had died, while keeping him hidden from view in a secret room within the walls of the family seat, Glamis Castle, Scotland. Various versions of the legend describe Thomas as ‘half-man, half-frog’, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] his former colleagues follow the same pattern of omerta, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke aggressively so. The Blairs’ financial interests seem to be arranged to defy scrutiny, hidden in part behind the pious façade of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBBF). In its own self-description, ‘TBBF is a “think-do” tank, meaning that all of […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] intelligence content: ‘MI5 lead hunt for IRA arms dumps’ in 2011 which began ‘Irish terrorists are feared to be planning an attack on mainland Britain using explosives hidden in Wales and the South-west’, which has no stated sources and may have come from MI5.6 With no apparent interest in intelligence stories Fielding has uncritically […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] word. Using it was an open invitation for curious readers to consult an encyclopedia and check what it meant. Anyone who did so would have spotted the hidden connection at once. The received wisdom about the Kennedy administration’s nickname ‘Camelot’ is that it was all the doing of his bereaved wife, Jackie, in an […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Ruby had no assistance from anyone in the Dallas PD in gaining access to the basement, and he shot Oswald on the spur of the moment (no hidden agenda). How do we know this? Simple: he left his dog unattended in his car, proof that he intended to return. these reviewers seem ever to […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] that aren’t connected to the internet using radio waves. (Update: Clarification — the NSA can access offline computers through radio waves on which it has already installed hidden devices.) It can intercept phone calls by setting up fake base stations. It can remotely access a computer by setting up a fake wireless connection. It […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a highly unusual (almost subservient) relationship with his own PA, Lady Falkender, and erratic judgement in general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] brought unanimity? Lastly and, indeed, in the very last chapter of the book, Rosthorn demonstrates that the police deliberately withheld evidence from the defence team. If this hidden evidence had been used by the defence at the trial, alongside other evidence available at the time, it would have immediately indicated that the case against […]