The view from the bridge

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Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be true that we have more police per capita than 1952, the UK remains lightly policed compared to many other 7 The only explanation that comes to mind for the extraordinary (and unprecedented) arrangements whereby the US and the UK share a nuclear deterrent appears to be that the UK took a view – […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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[…] role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good stuff, in other words. Available from bookshops and Amazon.co.uk 9 With the CPGB (courtesy of MI5: see the review of Christopher Andrew’s […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

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[PDF file]: […] things would work, then he would try them and see. Failure would be down to the patient; success was his alone. What was his theory of the mind? (Though theory might dignify and elevate his thinking, such as it was.) It was quite simple and, shorn of psychiatric and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed […]

The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

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[PDF file]: […] was aware of financial operations, apparently involving significant money balances, mentioned in the second expert report of East Star Capital. In this context, the Tribunal had in mind the definition and characteristics of money laundering.’ and ‘158. If substantial tests and proof of the activities of Manas Bank in money laundering had been produced […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] and conspiracy theories, that in many ways serve to distract from, and cover-up, what is actually going on. As she points out: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments, the aborted 1960s false flag Operation Northwoods and other US government plots were all, at some point, labeled wild conspiracy theories – until they […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: What just happened Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze London: Allen Lane, 2018, h/b, £30.00 Robin Ramsay I once heard a history professor describe another history professor I knew as ‘a very good, old-fashioned narrative historian’. I wasn’t entirely sure what he meant but I got the pejorative message. […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] but a man laying down a trail we were supposed to follow….The man’s task appears to have been to make himself unforgettable.’ Other puzzling questions come to mind. Are we to think that the US government simulation of a domestic bioterror attack in June 2001 that blamed Saddam Hussein for sourcing the toxic bacteria […]

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