The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping up on a position not so very dissimilar to the kinds of conspiracy theories popular during ‘roll-back’s’ hey-day, in the early 1950s: “Let us, for the sake of argument accept the explanations for our giving aid to Mozambique. Perhaps […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] the end as far as an independent Britain is concerned. That we’re finished, we are going to be sucked up in a tunnel of giant capitalist, Catholic conspiracy, our lives dominated by Adenauer and De Gaulle, unable to conduct any indepedent foreign policy at all. Frankly, this is rubbish on the basis of the […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little more about international conspiracy than understanding their individual motivations. From Charles Pottins Good to see you’re maintaining a sceptical eye on the ex-Living Marxism /Lying Marketing scam. I didn’t get […]

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Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] report on the police use of computers, published by the GLC. For details see Publications. RR 007 Murray Sayles’ long apologia for the official version – “a conspiracy of circumstances” – in the Sunday Times (May 20th and 27th 1984). More interesting is the Defence Attache (June) piece by the pseudonymous P.Q. Mann, which […]

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From Bevan to Blair: 50 years reporting from the political front line

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the status of the front men for a Soviet revolution in the UK in the conspiracy theories of a faction of the British spooks which had Thatcher’s ear at the time. If Scanlon-Jones were suspect, so were their associates; and Goodman was […]

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Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] also the second part of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] today. Directive number N/99639 of BIS demanded the establishment of a net of Agents among their residents in Europe. These groups, whose purpose was to have been conspiracy only, were prepared for carrying out activities of sabotage, diversion and terror in cases of ‘special circumstance’ all in case of worsening relations in those states. […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one sense […]

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Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like IRD’s […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS virus had been a US military experiment? This seemed to have been dealt with when word emerged from the former Soviet […]

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