Digging in the Oyston archive

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, […]

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RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

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 […]

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The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

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 […]

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The Great Alliance: Economic Recovery and the Problems of Power 1945-51

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity about […]

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The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] a new type of unaccountable elite. This is already, if slowly, becoming the dominant force at the centre of the European project. There is no single ‘ conspiracy’ as such, just a convergence of trends towards a new consensus on how Europe can and should be governed. This crisis of authority just happens to […]

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Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] of books about Italian politics recently, and almost none of them willing to answer the question “Why Italy?” Why is Italy’s political culture so firmly based on conspiracy and secrecy? A part of that answer must be Italy’s role as the premier European site of the conflict between indigenous left-wing forces and NATO, the […]

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Fleshing Out Skull and Bones

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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 […]

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The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK’s Assassination

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] own satisfaction, if not to that of others, and no doubt to the mystification of many more), Wrone moves on to prove that the Z-film records a conspiracy. In this, we have come full circle, back to the early WCR critics who used the Z-film as their ‘exhibit A’. Wrone is pretty good on […]

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Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] of the coup which appeared in the June issue of a privately circulated newsletter from New Zealand, “Wellington Confidential”. Both stories were filled with unsupported allegations, innuendo, conspiracy and inaccuracy. “Wellington Confidential” attempts to model itself on a U.S. publication “Covert Action Information Bulletin” which claims to reveal U.S. intelligence activity, but often replays […]

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KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50)   Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter […]

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