[…] against Larry O’Hara has reached new depths. In the March issue they published his picture and described where they think he works and lives. Is this not conspiracy to cause actual bodily harm (or worse) to O’Hara? Since Larry will ignore the threat, what next for Searchlight? Larry’s address? A map? The London Left […]
As a recent TV programme (James Bellini’s ‘The Polite Conspiracy’ 4th April 1984 BBC2) made clear, the rich have devised some artful ways of avoiding tax. Of course they also have a government committed to drastically reducing their tax ‘burden’ (e.g. Nigel Lawson’s abolition of investment income surcharge, formerly payable on high unearned incomes). […]
[…] last word on the Diana case, a triumph for reason over the forces of conspiratorial thought. It is in fact a multi-million pound demolition of the sprawling conspiracy claims of Mohamed al-Fayed. Paget does not attempt to find the cause of the Paris crash – a task for the inquest – with only the […]
[…] is new to me and, perhaps, to most Lobster readers. It is worthy of note as a splendid example of that relatively rare species, the British global conspiracy theory. Quite what Stuart’s ‘theory’ is, however, is less than clear. He writes variously of ‘International Finance-power capitalism”, “One World Monopolists”, “a World Federalist State”, the […]
How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy […]
[…] Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless conspiracy theorists, who speculate that Oswald, who had visited Moscow, was a K.G.B. “asset” in Dallas.’ Apart from Edward J. Epstein, lighting another candle at the shrine […]
[…] with the seriousness it deserved. Information which has been collected since then means that its recent publication will make it an important lead in untangling the undoubted conspiracy formed around Agca’s “confessions”. The tale begins in 1981 when Ciro Cirillo, the Christian Democrat leader in Naples was kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Cirillo was […]
[…] espionage and subversion in the United States. Indeed, the concern has been turned inside out; the real threat – according to the fashionable mythology – was a conspiracy on the part of the vicious power structure using the myth of a Communist menace to justify its aggressive designs abroad and the squelching of opposition […]
[…] to be the standard populist, back-to-the-constitution stuff which now passes for thought on the further fringe of the U.S. right, liberally dosed with now rather archaic communist conspiracy stuff. In the pursuit of which, in an open letter to a U.S. senator, Coleman produces one of the great non-sequitors. ‘If you do not believe […]
[…] Waggoner Carr even provided the Warren Commission with Oswald’s FBI employee number and monthly salary. (12) It seems reasonable to speculate that the FBI heard of a conspiracy to kill the President centring on ultra-rightist elements in New Orleans, possibly using Mafia contract killers. (13) So Oswald is infiltrated into the group, to inform […]
