[…] he conspicuously hasn’t done, including not a line from either book that I can see. What he does tell us: Wilson ‘was…. predisposed to scent sabotage or conspiracy where none existed.’ (p. 475) Wilson ‘was not mad but lived on the fringes of a Kafka-esque world where madness was endemic’. (p. 478) ‘that something […]
[…] exposition is Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) There is a discussion of that literature in Niall Ferguson’s review essay, ‘Bankers: Beyond Conspiracy Theory’, in Twentieth Century British History, vol. 4, 1993. The version which first struck me was Frank Longstreth’s essay ‘The City, Industry and the State’, in […]
[…] detail the attempts to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a […]
[…] much, if any, major media exposure; but ‘what’s really happening’ is a dumb slogan. It is an interesting group: from Robert Sterling and Jonathan Vankin on the conspiracy theory-for-the-hell-of-it wing to Howard Zinn via William Blum, to the famous critic of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, critics of globalisation Noreena Hertz and Greg Palast – Palast […]
[…] and these characters? Despite fresh evidence (from the membership list) Griffiths, ultimately, comes to the same conclusion as Herbert Morrison in 1941 that Ramsay was an unstable conspiracy theorist, many of his followers were cranks, and many of those on the Right Club membership list may not even have known they were on it. […]
[…] Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia. The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter — an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy theories — contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author’s intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and […]
[…] of this woman and decided not to. If you are interested it is on Cryptome. I am conscious of the fate of Matthew Williams, publisher of the conspiracy theory-oriented magazine Truthseekers’ Review. (5) In November he was arrested and convicted for the ‘offence’ of making a crop circle in a field. As part of […]
[…] a Marxist program to enable it to root itself in the working-class. This is why within the global anti-capitalist movement infantile and often deeply reactionary and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories (references to the Illuminati and all that crap) proliferated at the expense of Marxism. It was compounded to some extent by the naïve belief that […]
[…] 1940. It was very convenient for Churchill. The received view is that after Kent’s arrest Churchill/MI5 used the Kent-Captain Ramsay connection as evidence of a more organised conspiracy than really existed – a pretext – and the whole lot of them, Mosley’s group, Ramsay’s group, the remnants of The Link etc, were all rounded […]
[…] the Commission on Preservation and Access which recommended scanning and discarding, was on Xerox’s advisory panel at the time. It is difficult, nevertheless, to discern an actual conspiracy at work in the story, though this may in part be owing to the book’s lack of a clear chronological structure. Rather, one gains the impression […]
