Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] not only total junk, they are turgid in the extreme. On both occasions I tried to read one I gave up pretty quickly. Most of the right-wing’s conspiracy theorists are short on documentation and logic, but some, notably Gary Allen, just about carry this sceptical reader along. Reading Nesta Webster, on the other hand, […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for some reason) about 9-11 and its aftermath was a sorry collection of conspiracy theories and […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] the war from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] power from the Tories, Oyston was in jail, serving a six year sentence for the rape and indecent assault of a young woman. The secrets of the conspiracy that destroyed Oyston’s business and political career now lie in a huge archive gathered during the twenty years in which he was tormented by secret enemies, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version is even more unlikely than some of the conspiracy theories.’ John Simpson, forward to Peter Hounam’s Operation Cyanide (London: Vision, 2003) The well-documented rise of the neo-cons has highlighted again a seemingly enduring feature of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] House of Lords 1997 intake for services to politics because LFIG played a small but important role in that process of transition to what we have today. Conspiracy theory Before telling the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] covered the King family’s landmark case and its successful outcome — establishing that Dr Martin Luther King was killed, not by a lone assassin, but by a conspiracy. This story was largely ignored by the American and British media, including our own dear Guardian, whose American reportage is in a class of its own […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Bush (and Governor Howard Dean) acknowledged members of Skull and Bones, it is getting hard even for an establishment paper like the Post to completely dismiss the conspiracy buffs. In the pursuit of Skull and Bones, Millegan’s collection of essays and reprints of articles is a major addition to the published information on the […]
