[…] they couldn’t persuade a British jury to convict a bunch of foreigners with Arab-sounding names; a plot so feeble the police were reduced to calling it a conspiracy to cause…… panic! (9) The comic highlight for me was the TV pictures of police or army personnel entering the house in full Chemical and Biological […]
[…] the 1952 picture and those we saw in the late eighties, the eyes, eyebrows and the ears seem similar. Though Wright became a fairly run-of-the-mill, right-wing, communist-obsessed conspiracy theorist, when younger he taught in the Workers Educational Association and voted Labour in 1945. (Spycatcher pp.30 and 31) He came from the middle class, and […]
[…] the Guardian, through its editor, Rusbridger, kept from them a letter stating that they were under investigation themselves and were facing a possible prosecution charging them with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Rusbridger’s version is that the letter was overlooked during a holiday period. Anyway, the Guardian pulled them off the story […]
[…] length. Watt certainly knows something of the group’s role in 20th century history, and their omission in this new book may reflect what Quigley perceived as a conspiracy of silence on the group’s activities. What is positive in Watt’s perspective is the focus on the role of concrete individuals. When Ross, in his book […]
Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more
[…] and King magisterially, ‘to substantiate this view, and all the available accounts tell against it. As so often, the cock-up theory seems infinitely more plausible than the conspiracy theory.’ At the end of their 23 detailed chapters, cock-up – ‘a study in failure’ – is their considered conclusion. Jenkins, now Chancellor of Oxford University, […]
[…] section and dragged many of the people in for questioning. (44) On December 5, 1997, a warrant was issued for the Sanders’ arrest. They were charged with conspiracy to illegally remove parts of aircraft wreckage and the crime of aiding and abetting the removal of such materials. James Kallstrom said: ‘These defendants are charged […]
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent; … Read more
[…] of ideas have become a farce. The Left has no equal voice, no equal access to the mass media and their public facilities – not because a conspiracy excludes it, but because, in good old capitalist fashion, it does not have the required purchasing power. Notes FCO (2005) Westminster Foundation for Democracy, ‘Working for […]
[…] little later.) This is probably why I like it: that’s the stuff I grew up on. But the UK underground press didn’t have Steamshovel‘s huge input of conspiracy theories. Steamshovel also has the faults as well as the virtues of the UK underground press. Oz and IT and the rest were fascinating but hardly […]
